Marnie Winter

Dr Marnie Winter

Research Fellow

Future Industries Institute

Future Industries Institute

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Dr Marnie Winter is currently leading an ambitious research theme at the Future Industries Institute. Her research is focussed on developing bioengineering technologies to improve prenatal care and address common pregnancy complications such as preeclampsia which have severe consequences for both mother and baby. Specifically, Marnie and her team are developing novel approaches to screen, manage and treat pregnancy complications. This work is focused on developing approaches to enrich and analyse fragments of placental material (including extracellular vesicles) found in maternal blood to generate comprehensive non-invasive insights into pregnancy and its complications.  Marnie’s work is also focused on developing in vitro models that can improve the molecular understanding of placental dysfunction (such as preeclampsia) with the aim to understand molecular origins of disease and accelerate the drug development pipeline. As an emerging leader, Marnie has been awarded a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenge Explorations Grant (<2% awarded globally), a prestigious international Thrasher Early Career Award Grant and also a Australian Institute of Policy and Science Young Tall Poppy of Science (South Australia) Award.  From 2017-20221, Marnie  co-led a signature project for the ARC Centre of Excellence in Convergent BioNano Science and Technology “New tools for quantifying and manipulating rare entities directly into biological fluids”.

Dr Marnie Winter is currently leading an ambitious research theme at the Future Industries Institute. Her research is focussed on developing bioengineering technologies to improve prenatal care and address common pregnancy complications such as preeclampsia which have severe consequences for both mother and baby. Specifically, Marnie and her team are developing novel approaches to screen, manage and treat pregnancy complications. This work is focused on developing approaches to enrich and analyse fragments of placental material (including extracellular vesicles) found in maternal blood to generate comprehensive non-invasive insights into pregnancy and its complications.  Marnie’s work is also focused on developing in vitro models that can improve the molecular understanding of placental dysfunction (such as preeclampsia) with the aim to understand molecular origins of disease and accelerate the drug development pipeline. As an emerging leader, Marnie has been awarded a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenge Explorations Grant (<2% awarded globally), a prestigious international Thrasher Early Career Award Grant and also a Australian Institute of Policy and Science Young Tall Poppy of Science (South Australia) Award.  From 2017-20221, Marnie co-led a signature project for the ARC Centre of Excellence in Convergent BioNano Science and Technology “New tools for quantifying and manipulating rare entities directly into biological fluids”.

Year Citation
2026 Milanova, V., Tieu, W., Asp, J., Akkermans, S., Keller, M., Winter, M., . . . Thierry, B. (2026). Cation exchange reaction in Bi₂S₃ nanorods enables the one-step fabrication of copper-64 nanoparticulate molecular PET imaging agents with ultrahigh radiolabel stability. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 14(2), 626-637.
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2025 Pinero, S., Li, X., Liu, L., Li, J., Lee, S. H., Winter, M., . . . Le, T. D. (2025). Integrative multi-omics framework for causal gene discovery in Long COVID. PLoS Computational Biology, 21(12), e1013725-1-e1013725-32.
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2025 Pham, Q. N., Milanova, V., Tung, T. T., Losic, D., Thierry, B., & Winter, M. A. (2025). Affinity enrichment of placental extracellular vesicles from minimally processed maternal plasma with magnetic nanowires. The Analyst, 150(9), 1908-1919.
DOI Scopus2 WoS2 Europe PMC1
2025 Pinero, S., Li, X., Zhang, J., Winter, M., Lee, S. H., Nguyen, T., . . . Le, T. D. (2025). Omics-based computational approaches for biomarker identification, prediction, and treatment of Long COVID. Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences, 1-27.
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2022 Li, X., Liu, L., Whitehead, C., Li, J., Thierry, B., Le, T. D., & Winter, M. (2022). Identifying preeclampsia-associated genes using a control theory method. Briefings in Functional Genomics, 21(4), 296-309.
DOI Scopus5 WoS6 Europe PMC9
2022 Doan, T. N. A., Bianco-Miotto, T., Parry, L., & Winter, M. A. (2022). The role of Angiotensin II and relaxin in vascular adaptation to pregnancy.. Reproduction (Cambridge, England), 164(4), 87-99.
DOI Scopus10 WoS8 Europe PMC8
2022 Pham, Q. N., Winter, M., Milanova, V., Young, C., Condina, M. R., Hoffmann, P., . . . Thierry, B. (2022). Magnetic enrichment of immuno-specific extracellular vesicles for mass spectrometry using biofilm-derived iron oxide nanowires. Nanoscale, 15(3), 1236-1247.
DOI Scopus8 WoS7 Europe PMC6
2022 Dalziell, J., Keaney, J., Kearnes, M., Thierry, B., & Winter, M. (2022). Bioengineering human placentas: social implications of an advancing field. Trends in Biotechnology, 40(2), 137-140.
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2021 Rezaei, M., Radfar, P., Winter, M., McClements, L., Thierry, B., & Warkiani, M. E. (2021). Simple-to-operate approach for single cell analysis using a hydrophobic surface and nanosized droplets. Analytical Chemistry, 93(10), 4584-4592.
DOI Scopus21 WoS18 Europe PMC9
2021 Winter, M., Jankovic-Karasoulos, T., Roberts, C. T., Bianco-Miotto, T., & Thierry, B. (2021). Bioengineered microphysiological placental models: towards improving understanding of pregnancy health and disease. Trends in Biotechnology, 39(11), 1221-1235.
DOI Scopus11 WoS11 Europe PMC9
2021 Pham, T. T. T., Tran, D. P., Nguyen, M. C., Amen, M. T., Winter, M., Whitehead, C., . . . Thierry, B. (2021). A simplified point-of-care testing approach for preeclampsia blood biomarkers based on nanoscale field effect transistors. Nanoscale, 13(28), 12279-12287.
DOI Scopus18 WoS17 Europe PMC9
2019 Winter, M., Gibson, R., Ruszkiewicz, A., & Thierry, B. (2019). Cytomorphological characterization of individual metastatic tumor cells from gastrointestinal cancer patient lymph nodes with imaging flow cytometry. Gastrointestinal Disorders, 1(4), 372-384.
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2019 Rezaei, M., Winter, M., Zander-Fox, D., Whitehead, C., Liebelt, J., Warkiani, M. E., . . . Thierry, B. (2019). A reappraisal of circulating fetal cell noninvasive prenatal testing. Trends in Biotechnology, 37(6), 632-644.
DOI Scopus28 WoS22 Europe PMC13
2019 Winter, M., Cai, Z., Winkler, K., Georgiou, K., Inglis, D., Lavranos, T., . . . Thierry, B. (2019). Circulating tumour cell RNA characterisation from colorectal cancer patient blood after inertial microfluidic enrichment. MethodsX, 6, 1512-1520.
DOI Scopus11 WoS10 Europe PMC7
2019 Tran, D. P., Winter, M., Yang, C. T., Stockmann, R., Offenhausser, A., & Thierry, B. (2019). Silicon nanowires field effect transistors: a comparative sensing performance between electrical impedance and potentiometric measurement paradigms. Analytical chemistry, 91(19), 12568-12573.
DOI Scopus21 WoS21 Europe PMC9
2018 Winter, M., Hardy, T., Rezaei, M., Nguyen, V., Zander, D., Ebrahimi Warkiani, M., & Thierry, B. (2018). Isolation of circulating fetal trophoblasts using inertial microfluidics for noninvasive prenatal testing. Advanced Materials Technologies, 3(7), 1800066-1-1800066-10.
DOI Scopus35 WoS33
2018 Diéguez, L., Winter, M., Molan, S., Monis, P., King, B., & Thierry, B. (2018). Disposable microfluidic micromixers for effective capture of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts from water samples. Journal of Biological Engineering, 12(1, article no 4), 4-1-4-8.
DOI Scopus7 WoS6 Europe PMC3
2016 Tran, D. P., Winter, M. A., Wolfrum, B., Stockmann, R., Yang, C. T., Pourhassan Moghaddam, M., . . . Thierry, B. (2016). Toward intraoperative detection of disseminated tumor cells in lymph nodes with silicon nanowire field effect transistors. ACS Nano, 10(2), 2357-2364.
DOI Scopus59 WoS54 Europe PMC27
2015 Winter, M., Gibson, R., Ruszkiewicz, A., Thompson, S. K., & Thierry, B. (2015). Beyond conventional pathology: towards preoperative and intraoperative lymph node staging. International Journal of Cancer, 136(4), 743-751.
DOI Scopus13 WoS14 Europe PMC8
2015 Hardingham, J., Grover, P., Winter, M., Hewett, P., Price, T., & Thierry, B. (2015). Detection and clinical significance of circulating tumor cells in colorectal cancer - 20 years of progress. Molecular Medicine, 21(Suppl 1), S25-S31.
DOI Scopus131 WoS114 Europe PMC95
2015 Diéguez, L. M., Winter, M. A., Pocock, K. J., Bremmell, K. E., & Thierry, B. (2015). Efficient microfluidic negative enrichment of circulating tumor cells in blood using roughened PDMS. Analyst, 140(10), 3365-3372.
DOI Scopus48 WoS46 Europe PMC28
2014 Liu, T., Winter, M., & Thierry, B. (2014). Quasi-spherical microwells on superhydrophobic substrates for long term culture of multicellular spheroids and high throughput assays. Biomaterials, 35(23), 6060-6068.
DOI Scopus43 WoS46 Europe PMC30
2014 Wan, Y., Winter, M., Delalat, B., Hardingham, J., Grover, P., Wrin, J., . . . Thierry, B. (2014). Nanostructured polystyrene well plates allow unbiased high-throughput characterization of circulating tumor cells. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 6(23), 20828-20836.
DOI Scopus34 WoS34 Europe PMC22
2012 Keating, D., Winter, M., Hemsley, K., Mackenzie, K., Teo, E., Hopwood, J., . . . Parkinson-Lawrence, E. (2012). Exocytosis is impaired in mucopolysaccharidosis IIIA mouse chromaffin cells. Neuroscience, 227(27), 110-118.
DOI Scopus17 WoS17 Europe PMC12

Year Citation
2025 Piñero, S., Li, X., Liu, L., Li, J., Lee, S. H., Winter, M., . . . Le, T. D. (2025). TACO: TabPFN Augmented Causal Outcomes for Early Detection of Long COVID.
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2025 Pinero, S., Li, X., Zhang, J., Winter, M., Lee, S. H., Nguyen, T., . . . Le, T. D. (2025). Omics-Based Computational Approaches for Biomarker Identification, Prediction, and Treatment of Long COVID.
DOI
2025 Pinero, S., Li, X., Liu, L., Li, J., Lee, S. H., Winter, M., . . . Le, T. D. (2025). Integrative Multi-Omics Framework for Causal Gene Discovery in Long COVID.
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2022 Pham, Q. N., Winter, M., Milanova, V., Young, C., Condina, M., Hoffmann, P., . . . Thierry, B. (2022). Magnetic Enrichment of Immuno-Specific Extracellular Vesicles for Mass Spectrometry Using Biofilm-Derived Iron Oxide Nanowires.
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  • Circulating Fetal Cells: A new paradigm for the early detection of preeclampsia, Thrasher Research Fund, 01/07/2019 - 30/06/2020

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2025 Co-Supervisor Developing AI models for identifying the causes of Long COVID Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Xin Liu
2023 Co-Supervisor Non-invasive prenatal testing using extracellular vesicle derived fetal DNA - Doctorate Full Time Kieran James Sparkes
2023 Co-Supervisor Non-invasive prenatal testing using extracellular vesicle derived fetal DNA Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Kieran James Sparkes

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