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Dr Nicole Dvorak

Fellow, Junior Research Fellow

Postdoctoral Researcher

Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Science

BSc, MSc IMC University, DPhil Oxford

Nicole is a postdoctoral researcher at the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS), University of Oxford. For her undergraduate and masters, she studied Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology in Krems, Austria, where she graduated with distinction. For her Bachelor Thesis, she spent a research semester at UCSF, working on biomarker detection to predict kidney transplant rejection. This work was funded by the Marshal Plan Foundation.

For her Master Thesis she spent a research semester at the Queensland University of Technology, working on the Design and Fabrication of a biodegradable Scaffold to support periodontal cell growth. As part of Nicole’s DPhil, she joined NDORMS to model a soft bioreactor for tendon tissue engineering.

Nicole’s current work aims to model molecular mechanisms of soft tissue joint diseases with the help of Organoids.

Committees
Nicole formerly held positions in the NDORMS Student Committee, the MSD Graduate Joint Consultative Committee and the MSD Graduate School Committee. She was also part of the departmental Equality and Diversity Team.

Peer Support
Nicole is a trained peer supporter. She is part of the newly formed Disability and Diversity Peers, focussing on issues commonly shared among disabled and neurodiverse people.