About
Dr Sandy Hung
Research Fellow
Dr Sandy Hung’s current research focus is developing gene delivery and editing tools for treatment of inherited retinal diseases.
Dr Sandy Hung
Research Fellow
PhD, BSc(Hon)
Dr Sandy Hung is a Research Fellow in CERA’s Clinical Genetics team headed by Professor Alex Hewitt.
Dr Hung is a basic research scientist with a specialisation in molecular biology. Her current research interest is in developing improved gene delivery methods with the aim of providing better treatments for inherited retinal diseases (IRDs).
Dr Hung completed her PhD at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute and completed post-doctoral research in the US at the University of California, Irvine and the National Institute for Aging. On returning to Australia, Dr Hung joined CERA and tackled projects developing gene editing tools to treat IRDs, as well as using patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) to model and study IRDs.
- How to utilise and apply emerging technologies to develop better tools to treat inherited retinal diseases?
Current projects
Selected publications
Key collaborators
Funding and support
Current projects
- Development of new gene delivery tools using emerging biotechnologies to treat inherited retinal diseases.
Selected publications
Hung SSC, Chrysostomou V, Li AF, Lim JKH, Wang JH, Powell JE, Tu L, Daniszewski M, Lo C, Wong RCB, Crowston JG, Pebay A, King AE, Bui BV, Liu GS, Hewitt AW (2016) AAV-mediated CRISPR/Cas gene editing of retinal cells in vivo. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 57(7):3470-3476
Hung SSC, McCaughey T, Swann O, Pébay A, Hewitt AW. Genome engineering in ophthalmology: Application of CRISPR/Cas to the treatment of eye disease. Prog Retin Eye Res. 2016 Jul;53:1-20. doi: 10.1016/j.preteyeres.2016.05.001
Key collaborators
- Professor Leszek Lisowski – Children’s Medical Research Institute
- Associate Professor Andrew Deans – St Vincent’s Institute
- Professor Colin Pouton and Dr Harry Al-Wassiti – Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Dr Rajendra KC – University of Tasmania
Funding and support
Thank you to the following organisations for their support:
- National Health and Medical Research Council
- Centre for Eye Research Australia Innovation and Enterprise Fund
- Australian Vision Research
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