Chris Drogemuller

Chris Drogemuller

Adelaide Medical School

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.


Associate Professor Chris Drogemuller is the Chief Scientist of the Centre for Clinical and Experimental Transplantation (CCET) Laboratory. He has successfully supervised both PhD and Honours students and is responsible for the management of the RAH Renal Department laboratory (CCET).

The laboratory consists of several research groups including Professor Toby Coates (Islet Transplantation, Dendritic Cell Biology, Cell Therapy and Transplant Immunology), Dr Rob Carroll (Transplant Immunology and T Cell Biology (Tregs)), Dr Chen Au Peh (Vasculitis), Dr Shilpa Jesudason (Pregnancy Immunology and pre-eclampsia and Dendritic Cell Biology) and Professor Randall Faull (Director of the Medical Program-Deputy Dean).

In addition, Chris has been the Principal Scientist on the South Australian and Northern Territory Islet Program (SANTIP) for the past 15 years and recently completed a clinical trial of islet transplantation in type 1 diabetics published in the American Journal of Transplantation. He was instrumental in the successful application for South Australia's first Nationally Funded Centres (NFC) program for clinical islet transplantation which provides government funding to support islet transplant as a registered clinical procedure. In 2015 he was a key member of the first pediatric islet auto-transplant performed in Australia. The success of this initial case has lead to further islet auto-transplant recipients being identified and this new treatment modality is likely to be offered to other sufferers of chronic pancreatitis into the future. Prior to this he worked four years in America as the senior scientist (Molecular and Cellular Biology) within a clinical stage gene therapy company (Applied Genetics Technology Corporation, AGTC), two years in a cancer gene discovery project at the Hanson Institute (SA) and five years in the Department of Clinical Pharmacology at the Flinders Medical Centre (SA).

  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2024 Co-Supervisor Characterisation of Pancreatic Organoids in Hereditary Pancreatitis and Normal Individuals Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr James Daniel Zuiani
    2023 Co-Supervisor Modulation of the foreign antigen response in solid organ transplantation Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Matthew Jack Tunbridge
    2022 Co-Supervisor Genetic modifiers of hereditary pancreatitis in South Australian auto-islet recipients Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr James Daniel Zuiani
    2022 Co-Supervisor The Effect of Sirolimus on Enhancing COVID-19 Vaccine Response in Transplant Recipients Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Cheng Sheng Chai
  • Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2013 - 2019 Co-Supervisor Mesenchymal Stem Cells in an Ovine Model of Kidney Transplantation Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Bron Douglas Lett
    2012 - 2015 External Supervisor Investigations into the Role of Zinc and Zinc Transporters in the Pathogenesis of Type 2 Diabetes in db/db Mice Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Mariea Dencey Bosco
    2009 - 2013 External Supervisor Optimal Delivery of Therapeutic Genes to Pancreatic Islets Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Amy Hughes

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