Rate My Professor Liz Gardiner

Gardiner earned her PhD in Biochemistry from Monash University (1993) and completed a five-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in the United States, supported by the American Heart Association. She relocated her laboratory to the John Curtin School of Medical Research at ANU in 2016 following an Associate Professorial appointment. She has authored 143 peer-reviewed research papers, reviews, and commentaries, accumulating over 10,700 citations with an h-index of 60. Notable publications include 'A glycoprotein VI signaling defect in newly formed platelets generated in stress thrombopoiesis' (Hyslop et al., Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2025), 'Endothelial cell activation enhances thromboinflammation in vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia' (Dupuy et al., Blood Advances, 2025), and 'Platelets and the Hallmarks of Cancer' (Franco et al., Blood, 2015). Her contributions have advanced diagnostic and therapeutic developments for thrombotic and bleeding disorders. Gardiner has received the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis Esteemed Career Award (2022) and was elected a Fellow of the American Heart Association (2024). She holds prominent roles including Trustee of the Thrombosis and Haemostasis Society of Australia and New Zealand, Co-Editor-in-Chief of Platelets, Senior Associate Editor of Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, Editorial Board Member of Blood, Chair of the American Society of Hematology Scientific Committee on Platelets, co-Chair of the ISTH Biorheology Scientific Subcommittee, and Treasurer of the National Association of Research Fellows.