Associate Professor Gila Moalem-Taylor
- PhD in Neurobiology (Graduated 2001, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel). Thesis: T cell immune response in the injured central nervous system.
Moalem-Taylor graduated with a PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. She was then awarded a Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellowship, carried out at The University of Cincinnati Medical Centre (USA). She then moved to the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia, where she was awarded the Vice-Chancellor鈥檚 Postdoctoral Fellowship (2004-2007), followed by the NSW Office of Science and Medical Research Career Development Fellowship (2010-2013). In 2014, she was appointed as a combined track (teaching & research) academic in the Department of Physiology, where she leads the Neuropathic Pain Research Group at the Translational Neuroscience Facility, School of Biomedical Sciences, UNSW. Since her PhD, Moalem-Taylor has worked primarily in the field of neuroimmunology. Her current research focuses on the role of immune cells and their mediators in chronic pain caused by peripheral nerve injury, autoimmune diseases of the nervous system such as multiple sclerosis, and chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy. She听manages a team of postdocs, undergraduate research students (Honours), and PhD students. She is also the Postgraduate Coordinator at the School of Biomedical Sciences.
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- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
- NHMRC Project Grant (ID # APP1162060) 鈥淭argets and mechanisms in reducing neuropathic pain through immunomodulatory treatments" - Moalem-Taylor G & Butovsky Oleg. $927,520 (2019-2023)
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NHMRC Ideas Grant (ID # APP1187416). 鈥淎 novel approach for peripheral neuromodulation: Using ionic direct current to treat chronic pain" Moalem-Taylor G., Aplin F., Potas J., & Fridman G. $732,693.60 (2020-2023)
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UNSW Medicine Neuroscience,听Mental Health and Addictions Theme and SPHERE Clinical Academic Group Seed Grant 鈥 鈥淣anoconjugates for听treating neuropathic pain in an animal model of multiple sclerosis鈥澨齅oalem-Taylor Gila, Mao Guangzhao and Pascal Carrive (CIs)听Housley and Krishnan (AIs)听$80,000 (2022-2023)
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MS Australia 鈥 鈥淣anoconjugates for treating neuropathic pain in experimental听autoimmune encephalomyelitis, an animal model of MS鈥澨齅oalem-Taylor Gila, Mao Guangzhao and Pascal Carrive (CIs)听Housley, Potas and Krishnan (AIs)听$250,000 (2023-2025).
- 2017听 听 听 UNSW Arc Postgraduate Supervisor Award for excellence in postgraduate research supervision
- 2018听听听听听 SoMS Award for Higher Degree Research Supervision
- 2018听听听听听 SoMS Citation Classic Award for three papers that received 50 or more citations over any consecutive 5 years
- 2020听听听听听 Researcher of the Year Award 鈥 SoMS Dec 2020
- 2021听听听听听 Mid-Career Award - 鈥淲e are Neuroimmunology鈥 Mid-Career International Society of Neuroimmunology (ISNI) award
As CIA I lead NHMRC grants on preclinical studies in neuropathic pain.
My Research Supervision
I currently supervise several PhD and Honours student projects focusing on:
- Investigating the effects of regulatory T cells and anti-inflammatory cytokines (e.g. IL-35) on glial cell regulation in mouse models of neuropathic pain.
- Investigating sensory neuron and immune/glial cell interactions using in vitro primary cell cultures.
- Novel Neuromodulation approaches to block pain transmission.
- Neuron-targeted nanoconjugates for modulating pain behaviours (with Prof Mao, UNSW).
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My Teaching
- Co-convenor of the course NEUR3221 鈥 Neurophysiology
- Postgraduate Coordinator, School of Medical Sciences.