About Fiona J McDonald
Fiona J McDonald was a New Zealand physiologist and university teacher.
Fiona Jean McDonald is a New Zealand physiologist, professor and head of the McDonald Lab and the Department of Physiology at the University of Otago.
Academic career McDonald was born in Roxburgh, New Zealand. After graduating from St Hilda's Collegiate School in Dunedin she completed a BSc at the University of Otago. In 2011 McDonald was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study the function of a protein named COMMD10 at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Returning to her position at Otago, she was promoted to full professor, with effect from 1 February 2020.
Awards and honours In 2005, McDonald was awarded the Research Medal by the New Zealand Association of Scientists, for "her outstanding physiological research over the last 3 years".
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Who was Fiona J McDonald?
New Zealand physiology academic
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Fiona J McDonald was born in Roxburgh.
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Fiona J McDonald was a physiologist and university teacher.
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Fiona J McDonald was New Zealand.
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· Wikipedia: Fiona J McDonald
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