Dr Rose Chesworth

Post Doctoral Research Fellow, School of Medicine

Biography

Rose completed her Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) at the University of Sydney. She worked as a research assistant for 3 years with Prof Tim Karl at NeuRA, investigating gene-environment interactions in schizophrenia using genetic mouse models. She completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne with Prof Andrew Lawrence, investigating how glutamate and adenosine receptors contributed to methamphetamine addiction using mouse models. She continued her work using rodent models of addiction in her first postdoctoral position at Prof Bernard Balleine’s Behavioural Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Sydney. Here she investigated if pharmacologically targeting the noradrenergic system could help prevent relapse in alcohol addiction. Rose brought her skills in drug addiction research to Western Sydney University, to examine drug-taking behaviour in animal models of schizophrenia with Prof Tim Karl, and has recently started investigating novel treatments for neurodegenerative disorders. Rose is supported by several grants (e.g. NHMRC project grant 2019, Rebecca Cooper Project Grant 2020, Dementia Australia Project Grant 2022) and collaborates with leading Australian researchers from Macquarie University, the University of Wollongong and NeuRA.

Research Interests

• Behavioural Neuroscience
• Addiction
• Genetic mouse models
• Mental Health
• Pharmacology

Qualifications and Recognition

• PhD (Neuroscience) University of Melbourne
• B. Psychology (Honours) University of Sydney

Research and Publications

https://research-report.uws.edu.au/wpubs/Portal.asp

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