Leesa Lertsumitkul (@leesa_lerts) 's Twitter Profile
Leesa Lertsumitkul

@leesa_lerts

πŸ“PhD student in the Jenkins Lab at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute | CAR-T cell therapy in glioblastoma

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This one’s for all the nervous 3rd year undergrads out there struggling to find an lab for #Honours 😬 For this weeks #WLLL blog, I’ve written a handy 6 tip guide for matching with your perfect Honours lab. Crossley Lab UNSW Science crossleylab.wordpress.com/2019/10/11/mat…

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We did it! Thesis submitted all with a click of a button. Thank you to the amazing Crossley Lab for supporting me every step of the way. I think I can finally get a proper night sleep... πŸ˜„

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My first PhD talk at WEHI in Melbourne. This was all but a dream of mine sitting in Sydney lockdown with a torn ACL just one year ago. Thank you to Misty Jenkins AO for taking me on and all the support. Honoured to be here and excited for the road ahead! ✨

My first PhD talk at WEHI in Melbourne. This was all but a dream of mine sitting in Sydney lockdown with a torn ACL just one year ago. 

Thank you to <a href="/DrMistyJenkins/">Misty Jenkins AO</a> for taking me on and all the support. Honoured to be here and excited for the road ahead! ✨
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Surreal to hear from Drew Berry at WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute). I remember being in awe of his real-time transcription animations back in high school. Sitting in the audience tonight reminded me of why I wanted to become a scientist all those years ago! 😁

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Was an honour to help organise our first student-led #WEHIstudent symposium after 4 years. Incredible effort by everyone and amazing talks/posters all round. Success!

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It’s official! Very proud to have passed this important milestone in my PhD. It was great to present and share my work. Couldn’t have done it without the support of the amazing people in my group and beyond. Now on to the celebrations! πŸŽ‰ WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute)

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My first radio gig 🀩 Excited to join Dr Shane’s program talking about my PhD project researching novel immunotherapies in brain cancer. Tune in tomorrow 11am-12pm to have a listen!

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Such a fun experience live on radio today with Dr Shane Huntington OAM for his annual #20phds20mins program on Einstein A Go Go. A great chat about the complexities of brain cancer and how I’m developing novel CAR-T cell therapies that can migrate into the brain.

Such a fun experience live on radio today with <a href="/DrShaneRRR/">Dr Shane Huntington OAM</a> for his annual #20phds20mins program on <a href="/einstein_agogo/">Einstein A Go Go</a>. A great chat about the complexities of brain cancer and how I’m developing novel CAR-T cell therapies that can migrate into the brain.
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Such an incredible group of people doing inspiring research in all different fields. Here’s the link to the broadcast if you missed it live on air: rrr.org.au/explore/progra…

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Weeds and brain cancer might have more in common than you’d think! 🌱 🧠 Stoked to have come runner up in this years WEHI 3MT competition. A real challenge but a great way to think about communicating our science. #WEHI3MT WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute) #scicomm

Weeds and brain cancer might have more in common than you’d think! 🌱 🧠 

Stoked to have come runner up in this years WEHI 3MT competition. A real challenge but a great way to think about communicating our science. #WEHI3MT <a href="/WEHI_research/">WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute)</a> #scicomm
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Check out this little interview I did with the BCC! An amazing opportunity to work in a community of brain cancer researchers.

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Really grateful for the Frank Montague Scholarship kindly donated by Dine for Cure, allowing me to do cutting edge research to develop novel cellular therapies for brain cancer. I’m 2 years into my PhD and really proud of the success I’ve had so far. Final year here we come!

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Very excited to share that my first first-author publication is officially live! 🀩 A massive shoutout to my supervisors Misty Jenkins AO and Ryan Cross for their guidance with this project, and support from the rest of the team.

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Here’s a closer look at β€œEphA3-targeted chimeric antigen receptor T cells are effective in glioma and generate curative memory T cell responses by Leesa Lertsumitkul, Melinda Iliopoulos, Stacie S. Wang, Sarah J. McArthur, Lisa Ebert, Dr Alex Davenport, Dr Raelene Endersby, Jordan R. Hansford, Katharine J.

Here’s a closer look at β€œEphA3-targeted chimeric antigen receptor T cells are effective in glioma and generate curative memory T cell responses by <a href="/leesa_lerts/">Leesa Lertsumitkul</a>, Melinda Iliopoulos, Stacie S. Wang, Sarah J. McArthur, <a href="/lisamebert/">Lisa Ebert</a>, <a href="/dralexdav/">Dr Alex Davenport</a>, <a href="/drendersby/">Dr Raelene Endersby</a>, <a href="/auscancadoc/">Jordan R. Hansford</a>, Katharine J.
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Awesome to see our Research Rockstar Prof Misty Jenkins AO work in the Herald Sun today. Misty and her WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute) teammates Leesa Lertsumitkul Melinda Iliopoulos, Stacie Wang, Dr Alex Davenport and Ryan S Cross authored this study, proudly funded by The Brain Cancer Centre with funding

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Front page on the herald sun today! Super cool to see our latest research shared nationally today across news outlets. Proud to be part of this incredible work, a good news day for brain cancer patients and their families. ❀️