Dr Renee Chow

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  • Renee.Chow@monash.edu

Biography

Dr Renee Chow is a developmental biologist who completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the I.G.B.M.C. in France. In 2010, she was awarded the Cambridge Commonwealth International Scholarship and moved to the United Kingdom to pursue her Ph.D. studies at the University of Cambridge, where she studied retinal development. After completing her Ph.D. in 2015, she moved to France and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the I.G.B.M.C. in Strasbourg, where she studied the role of mechanical forces in heart development. In Strasbourg, Chow received a fellowship from the Lefoulon-Delalande Foundation.

Returning to Australia in 2022, Dr Chow established her research program at the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, an internationally respected centre of excellence in regenerative medicine and advanced therapies. Dr Chow’s primary research interests are in how organs acquire their form, how they aberrantly reactivate developmental pathways during disease, and how damaged organs regenerate and repair.

Learn more about Dr Chow’s research here.

Research interests

Cardiac repair and regeneration

Heart valve development and disease

Featured Publications

Authors Title Published In

Chow RW, Fukui H, Chan WX, Tan KSJ, Roth S, Duchemin AL, Messaddeq N,
Nakajima H, Liu F, Faggianelli-Conrozier N, Klymchenko AS, Choon Hwai Y,
Mochizuki N, Vermot J.

Cardiac forces regulate zebrafish heart valve delamination by
modulating Nfat signaling.

PLoS Biol. 14;20(1):e3001505. (2022)

Fukui H, Chow RW, Xie J, Foo YY, Yap CH, Minc N, Mochizuki N, Vermot J.

Bioelectric signaling and the control of cardiac cell identity in response to mechanical forces.

Science. 15;374(6565):351-354. (2021)

Cairelli, AG, Chow RW, Vermot J, Yap CH.

Fluid Mechanics of the Zebrafish
Embryonic Heart Trabeculation

PLoS Computational Biology. 18(6): e1010142. (2022)

Lam YT, Hsu CJ, Simpson PJL, Dunn LL, Chow RW, Chan KH, Yong ASC, Yu Y, Sieveking DP, Lecce L, Yuan J, Celermajer DS, Wise SG, Ng MKC.

Androgens Stimulate EPC-Mediated Neovascularization and Are Associated with Increased Coronary Collateralization.

Endocrinology. 1;161(5):bqaa043. (2020)

Chow RW, Lamperti P, Steed E, Boselli F, Vermot J.

Following Endocardial Tissue Movements via Cell Photoconversion in the Zebrafish Embryo.

J. Vis. Exp (132), e57290, doi:10.3791/57290 (2018)

Chow RW, Almeida AD, Randlett O, Norden C, Harris WA.

Inhibitory neuron migration and IPL formation in the developing zebrafish retina.

Development. 142(15):2665-77 (2015)

Dunn LL, Simpson PJ, Prosser HC, Lecce L, Yuen GS, Buckle A, Sieveking DP, Vanags LZ, Lim PR, Chow RW, Lam YT, Clayton Z, Bao S, Davies MJ, Stadler N, Celermajer DS, Stocker R, Bursill CA, Cooke JP, and Ng MK.

A critical role for thioredoxin-interacting protein in diabetes-related impairment of angiogenesis.

Diabetes. 63:67587. (2014)