Rate My Professor Renee Rogers

Dr. Renee Rogers is a lecturer in the Monash University School of Biomedical Sciences, within the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. She specializes in the creation and delivery of physiology education for the Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences degree. Her research interests encompass bioscience education, anatomy, and physiology, with contributions aligned to UN Sustainable Development Goals including good health and well-being and quality education. Rogers has been actively involved in innovative teaching practices, including the integration of bioscience into nursing curricula, and leads outreach initiatives such as the BioEYES Australia program at the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, which engages school students in hands-on zebrafish research and was a finalist in the 2023 Engagement Australia Excellence Awards.

Rogers has earned recognition for her exceptional teaching through multiple awards, including the Biomedical Discovery Institute Teaching Excellence Award in 2020, Monash Student Association (MSA) Teaching Excellence Nominations in 2019 and 2024, the Dean's Award for Excellence in Education for Innovation in Teaching and Learning in 2024, and the MSA Above and Beyond Award in 2025. She holds Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, awarded in 2022. Her publications highlight her work in educational research and prior contributions to mammary gland biology, such as 'The impact of integrating bioscience and nursing subjects in a first-year nursing curriculum: A retrospective study' (2023, Nurse Education in Practice), 'Horizontal integration of bioscience and nursing in first-year nursing curricula: A systematic review' (2022, Nurse Education Today), 'Runx2 is a novel regulator of mammary epithelial cell fate in development and breast cancer' (2014, Cancer Research), 'Transcript profiling of Elf5+/- mammary glands during pregnancy identifies novel targets of elf5' (2010, PLoS ONE), and 'Prolactin regulation of mammary gland development' (2008, Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia). Rogers has presented on topics like Bioscience in Nurse Education (2024) and contributed to educational resources including engagement cards and concept synthesis activities.