Aria is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Imaging Scientist at Children’s Cancer Institute and Katharina Gaus Light Microscopy Facility at the University of New South Wales. Aria uses fluorescence imaging to study the complex environment surrounding aggressive solid childhood tumours such as brain cancer.
As a Fulbright Future Scholar, Aria will collaborate with research clinician Professor Jan Grimm and his team at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, where she will employ an imaging technique called “Cerenkov luminescence” to visualise the uptake of cancer drugs into solid tumours. Her aim is to use this information to design more effective, less toxic treatments that improve the outcomes for children with these deadly diseases.