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Dr Maaike Kockx (PhD)
Senior Hospital Scientist
ANZAC Research Institute
Concord Repatriation General Hospital
Dr Maaike Kockx completed her PhD in cardiovascular research in 1999 at the University of Leiden in The Netherlands. She moved to Australia to join the laboratory of Prof Kritharides at the Heart Research Institute, where she started investigating protein secretion and cholesterol metabolism in macrophages. This work continued at the University of New South Wales and she now is at the ANZAC Research Institute were she manages the Atherosclerosis Laboratory and runs several in vitro cell-based studies as well as animal projects investigating processes involved in atherosclerosis.