Adjunct Associate Professor
Leila Cuttle

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Faculty of Health,
School of Biomedical Sciences


Personal details

Positions

Associate Professor
Faculty of Health,
School of Biomedical Sciences

Keywords

Burns, Burn Injury, Injury Prevention, Trauma, Traumatic Injury, Child Pain, Paediatric Burns, Paediatric Wound healing, Child Health, Physical Health, Psychological Health, First aid treatment, Pre-hospital Care, Burn Treatments, Hydrogel Dressings, Wounds, Skin, Epithelium, Wound healing, Re-epithelialisation, Repair, Regeneration, Scar tissue, Scarring, Pathology, Tissue Destruction, Apoptosis, Necrosis, Tissue Culture, In Vitro Wound Models, 3D Skin Models, In Vivo Wound Models, Biomarker Discovery, Proteomics, Blister Fluid, Saliva, Clinical Trials, Patient Data

Research field

Medical Physiology, Medical Biochemistry and Metabolomics, Public Health and Health Services

Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008

Qualifications

  • PhD (University of Queensland)
  • Bachelor of Science with Honours (University of Queensland)

Professional memberships and associations


  • Head of the QUT Burns and Trauma Research Laboratory at the Centre for Children's Health Research, Queensland University of Technology.
  • Group Leader in the Centre for Children's Burns and Trauma Research (CCBTR), a multi-disciplinary research team across several institutions (Queensland Health, QUT and UQ).
  • QUT Centre  for Child Health and Wellbeing
  • Chair of the Research Committee for the Australian and New Zealand Burns Association, Co-chair of the Consumer Advisory Group, Director on the Australian and New Zealand Burns Association Board.
  • Member of the Australian and New Zealand Burn Association (ANZBA), Member of the Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR), Member of Women in Technology (WiT), Member of the Australasian Wound and Tissue Repair Society (AWTRS) and previous committee member (2010-2018) and secretary (2012-2016)
  • Previously organized the Australian and New Zealand Burn Association Annual Scientific Conference in Brisbane 2018 and 2011, and organized and chaired the Scientific Forum at those conferences. Also previously organized the Australasian Wound and Tissue Repair Society Conference at North Stradbroke Island 2018 (and organised the EMCR Program),  the conference in Gold Coast 2014 and Sydney 2012 and also chaired an Early Career Researcher Masterclass Session as part of that conference.

Teaching

Supervision of Research: The main focus of my lab group is to conduct research which aims to improve the lives of children affected by burn injury. We use different techniques to understand the molecular mechanisms behind how burn injuries occur, and we are developing new wound diagnostics and new therapies to enhance wound healing and reduce scarring.

Teaching: I have been the unit co-ordinator for LQB502 and LQB503, the Work Integrated Learning (WIL) units for the Biomedical Sciences degree LS40, since 2021. I co-ordinate both units in Semester 1 and Semester 2, and assist with finding biotech/industry/medical placements for undergraduate and postgraduate Biomedical students.

Experience

Publications

QUT ePrints

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A complete list of publications is available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/leila.cuttle

Awards

Selected research projects

Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.