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Elizabeth E. Gardiner, PhD

Professor
Australian National University
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Professor Elizabeth Gardiner is the Director of the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. She received her PhD in Biochemistry from Monash University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship supported by the American Heart Association at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland OH USA. She is Scientific Director of the National Platelet Referral and Research Centre at ANU and The Canberra Hospital. She has published 178 peer-reviewed research papers, commentaries and reviews in the area of platelet biochemistry and platelet receptor function, particularly relevant to both thrombosis and bleeding in patients. She identified a novel mechanism for shedding of vascular receptors triggered by shear stress, enabling new capabilities in diagnostic and therapeutic reagent development.

She is co-Editor-in-Chief of Platelets Journal, a Trustee of the Thrombosis and Haemostasis Society of Australia and New Zealand (THANZ), a Senior Associate Editor of Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, and on the Editorial Board of Blood. She is the immediate past Treasurer of the National Association of Research Fellows (NARF). She was 2021 Chair of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) Scientific Committee on Platelets and Megakaryocytes and co-Chair of the International Society for Thrombosis and Haemostasis Biorheology Scientific Subcommittee. She is the Theme leader (Platelets) for the ISTH Program Committee for the Bangkok 2024 Congress. She was the 2023 Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on the Cell Biology of Megakaryocytes and Platelets.

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