Rate My Professor Marina Paul

Dr. Marina Paul, also known as Marina Ilicic, serves as a Research Fellow in the Stroke Recovery Research Group, co-directed by Professors Michael Nilsson and Rohan Walker, within the School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She earned her Bachelor of Biological Science, Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Honours), and Doctor of Philosophy in Medicine from the University of Newcastle. Her PhD research investigated culture-induced phenotypic changes in pregnant human uterine smooth muscle cells, demonstrating transitions to a pro-contractile state akin to labour and identifying culture conditions to preserve the non-labouring phenotype, thereby enhancing in vitro models for myometrial studies. Following her PhD, she served as Casual Research Coordinator before joining the Stroke Recovery Research Group as Research Fellow in 2018, transitioning her focus from reproductive medicine to neuroscience, where she investigates the effects of antiplatelet medication clopidogrel on post-stroke cognitive recovery, neurovascular unit integrity, and amyloid beta accumulation in aged mice following stroke.