Rate My Professor Christen Chisholm

Christen Chisholm is a researcher at the University of Wollongong. She completed a Bachelor of Biotechnology with Honours at the University of Wollongong between 1995 and 1998 and a Graduate Diploma in Education. After her studies, she worked for two decades as a science teacher in high schools in the Illawarra region. She later pursued a PhD at the University of Wollongong, where she trained in the laboratory of the late Professor Justin Yerbury. She is currently an Associate Research Fellow and post-doctoral research fellow at Molecular Horizons in the School of Science at the University of Wollongong. Her research focuses on Motor Neurone Disease, including the development of targeted BioPROTAC degraders selective for misfolded SOD1 protein. In 2025, she led a team that published findings on a world-first discovery involving the removal of toxic proteins before they damage motor neurones, with the work funded by FightMND. She holds the MNDA Bill Gole Fellowship.