Simone Schueller
University of Western Australia
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Encourages students to think creatively.
Always prepared and organized for students.
A role model for academic excellence.
Creates a safe space for learning and growth.
Challenges students to grow and excel.
About Simone
Dr. Simone Schueller is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in the UWA Medical School and an Honorary Research Associate at The Kids Research Institute Australia (Telethon Kids Institute). She obtained her MD from the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, in 2006 and her PhD in Neonatal Immunology from Maastricht University in 2018. Her academic career includes a paediatric residency completed at the Medical University of Vienna in 2017, a research fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, where she established a CyTOF protocol for immune ontogeny studies, and since 2018, roles as a Postdoc researcher and Senior Lecturer at the University of Western Australia. She also serves as a Neonatology Fellow and Senior Registrar at King Edward Memorial Hospital and Perth Children’s Hospital.
Schueller’s research specializations encompass immunomodulation for preventive and therapeutic strategies in neonates and comparative immune ontogeny in neonates and adults to inform vaccine adjuvant development. She has earned notable awards, including the Paediatric Research Early Career Investigator Award in 2017 and the Max Kade Research Fellowship by the Austrian Academy of Science in 2016. Key publications include “Intravenous pentoxifylline is well tolerated in critically ill preterm infants with sepsis or necrotizing enterocolitis” (2020, European Journal of Pediatrics, with Kempf, K., Unterasinger, L., Strunk, T., Berger, A.), “Immunomodulation to prevent or treat neonatal sepsis: Past, present, and future” (2018, Frontiers in Pediatrics, with Kramer, B. W., Villamor, E., Spittler, A., Berger, A., Levy, O.), “Review demonstrates that less invasive surfactant administration in preterm neonates leads to fewer complications” (2018, Acta Paediatrica, with Gortner, L., Herting, E.), “Acute Respiratory Distress in a Child with H3N2 Infection” (2018, Klinische Padiatrie), and “Safety and Efficacy of Micafungin in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants” (2018, The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, with Bauer, C., Unterasinger, L., Berger, A.). Her scholarly impact is reflected in an h-index of 9 and 250 citations.
Professional Email: simone.schueller@uwa.edu.au