Associate ProfessorAnai Gonzalez Cordero
Conjoint Associate Professor
Faculty of Medicine and Health
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- Conjoint Associate ProfessorFaculty of Medicine and Health
Research projects & supervision summary
- Stem Cell–Derived Photoreceptor Cell Therapy
Developing transplantable photoreceptor cells for treatment of advanced retinal degeneration.
- Gene Editing Therapies for Inherited Retinal Diseases
CRISPR/AAV-based therapeutic strategies targeting Usher syndrome and Stargardt disease.
- Human Retinal, Brain, and Auditory Organoid Disease Models
Generating complex organoids from patient iPSCs to study disease mechanisms and test therapies.
- Electrical Stimulation to Improve Cell Transplant Integration
Novel bioengineering approach to enhance survival and functional integration of transplanted photoreceptors.
- NSW Organoid Innovation and Non-Animal Technologies Initiatives
Leading large-scale programs advancing organoid platforms for biomedical research and therapeutic discovery.
RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONElucidating the role of key signalling pathways in human retina development.2026
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONComplex organoids to model CNS and ophthalmic diseases.2025
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONDevelopment of novel gene therapies for Stargardt’s disease using induced pluripotent stem cells-derived retinal organoids.2023
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONDevelopment of macular regions in retinal organoids.2021
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONBioelectric Modulation to Enhance Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Photoreceptor Cell Therapy
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONBuilding Stem cell-derived complex organoids to model CNS and ophthalmic diseases
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONCausal Spatial-Omics for Tissue Programs: Interpretable, Perturbation-Aware Models for Development and Disease
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONDeveloping 3D Models of Paediatric Solid Tumours
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONDeveloping a Macula in Stem Cell-Derived Human Retinal Organoids
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONElucidating the role of key signalling pathways in human retina development
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONEngineering Culture Conditions of Human Stem Cell-Derived Organoids
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONIdentifying Spatially Informative Genes for Cell Mapping and Comparative Analysis
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONInherited Retinal Diseases – natural history, disease modelling and gene therapies
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONModelling Stargardt's Disease and Evaluating Gene Therapy Strategies Using Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Retinal Organoids
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONMolecular dysregulation in monogenic neurodevelopmental disorders: disease modelling to drug repurposing
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONPreclinical assessment of gene therapy for RARS2-related early onset epileptic encephalopathy
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONUnravelling the molecular landscape of Rett syndrome through stem cell disease modelling and integrative omics
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONUsing Patient iPSC-Derived Organoids for Disease Modelling and Gene Therapy Development in Usher Syndrome Type 1B
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONWorking Towards Developing AAV-based Gene Addition Therapy for CDKL5-deficiency Disorder