Professor Natasha Rogers
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Professor Natasha Rogers

Associate Professor, Westmead Clinical School
Phone
86273510

Dr Natasha Rogers received her medical degree from the University of Adelaide. She completed her Internal Medicine training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and then trained in Nephrology at the Royal Darwin and Queen Elizabeth Hospitals.

She received her PhD in 2011 through the University of Adelaide in Professor Toby Coates' Transplant Immunology Laboratory in the Basil Hetzel Institute (Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide).

Dr Rogers undertook a postdoctoral fellowship (2011-2015) at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, at both the Starzl Transplant and Vascular Medicine Institutes under Drs Angus Thomson and Jeffrey Isenberg respectively. In 2015 she was appointed as Faculty in the Renal-Electrolyte Division at the University of Pittsburgh.

In 2016, Dr Rogers moved back to Australia to establish her own laboratory at the Westmead Institute for Medica Research. She is also a Staff Specialist at Westmead Hospital Renal Division, and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Starzl Transplant Institute.

Acute kidney injury/renal ischemia reperfusion injury

Kidney transplantation

Dendritic cell biology

Diabetes and islet transplantation

2006 John Chalmers Award for Research, Royal Australasian College of Physicians

2006 Pfizer Award for Research, Royal Australasian College of Physicians

2007 Kidney Health Australia Postgraduate Scholarship

2007 Australian Postgraduate Award, University of Adelaide

2007 NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarship

2010 Ross Wishart Award fort Research, Australian Society for Medical Research

2010 Young Investigator Award, Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ)

2010 President’s Prize, Best Young Investigator, TSANZ

2010 Young Investigator Award, Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology (ANZSN)

2010 AusBiotech GSK Student Excellence Award, South Australian and National Winner

2010 Don & Lorraine Jacquot Fellowship, Royal Australasian College of Physicians

2010 Early Career Fellowship, NHMRC

2010 Janssen-Cilag Travelling Fellowship, TSANZ

2010 Novartis Travelling Fellowship, ANZSN

2011 Basic Science Symposium Mentor-Mentee Award, The Transplantation Society

2011 Winner, PhD Research Excellence Award, South Australian Science Awards

2012 Young Investigator Award, American Transplant Congress

2012 Best postdoctoral presentation, University of Pittsburgh Research Day

2012 Best Basic Science Presentation, Advances in Organ Transplantation Fellows Conference

2014 Best Basic Science Presentation, Fellows Research Day, American Heart Association

2015 Best basic science presentation, University of Pittsburgh Acute Kidney Injury Symposium

Obesity, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease, Infection and Immunological Conditions
Project titleResearch student
The immunological mechanisms underlying the transition from acute kidney injury (AKI) to chronic kidney disease (CKD)Xutong HU
State-of-the-art cardiac diagnostic techniques to improve diagnosis and management of heart diseaseManoj RAJAMOHAN
Deciphering homogenous mechanisms for pan-organ allograft dysfunctionHarry ROBERTSON
Identifying pathways that promote cardiovascular pathology in chronic kidney diseaseKatie TRINH

Publications

Book Chapters

  • Li, J., Rogers, N., Hawthorne, W. (2021). Ischemia-reperfusion injury. In Giuseppe Orlando and Shaf Keshavjee (Eds.), Organ Repair and Regeneration, (pp. 1-42). United Kingdom: Elsevier Inc. [More Information]

Journals

  • Philipoff, A., Lin, Y., Teixeira-Pinto, A., Gately, R., Craig, J., Opdam, H., Chapman, J., Pleass, H., Rogers, N., Davies, C., Yang, J., Wong, G., et al (2024). Antecedent Cardiac Arrest Status of Donation After Circulatory Determination of Death (DCDD) Kidney Donors and the Risk of Delayed Graft Function After Kidney Transplantation: A Cohort Study. Transplantation, 108(10), 2117-2126.
  • Robertson, H., Kim, H., Li, J., Robertson, N., Robertson, P., Jimenez-Vera, E., Ameen, F., Tran, A., Trinh, K., O'Connell, P., Yang, J., Rogers, N., Patrick, E. (2024). Decoding the hallmarks of allograft dysfunction with a comprehensive pan-organ transcriptomic atlas. Nature Medicine, 30, 3748-3757.
  • Zhao, Y., Nicholson, L., Wang, H., Qian, Y., Hawthorne, W., Jimenez-Vera, E., Gloss, B., Lai, J., Thomas, A., Chew, Y., Rogers, N., Hu, M., et al (2024). Intragraft memory-like CD127hiCD4+Foxp3+ Tregs maintain transplant tolerance. JCI Insight, 9(6). [More Information]

Report

  • Webster, A., Robertson, P., Mark, T., Hedley, J., Kelly, P., Anderson, P., Rogers, N., Coates, P. (2018). ANZIPTR Report 2018; Australia and New Zealand Islet and Pancreas Registry data 1984-2017..

2024

  • Philipoff, A., Lin, Y., Teixeira-Pinto, A., Gately, R., Craig, J., Opdam, H., Chapman, J., Pleass, H., Rogers, N., Davies, C., Yang, J., Wong, G., et al (2024). Antecedent Cardiac Arrest Status of Donation After Circulatory Determination of Death (DCDD) Kidney Donors and the Risk of Delayed Graft Function After Kidney Transplantation: A Cohort Study. Transplantation, 108(10), 2117-2126.
  • Robertson, H., Kim, H., Li, J., Robertson, N., Robertson, P., Jimenez-Vera, E., Ameen, F., Tran, A., Trinh, K., O'Connell, P., Yang, J., Rogers, N., Patrick, E. (2024). Decoding the hallmarks of allograft dysfunction with a comprehensive pan-organ transcriptomic atlas. Nature Medicine, 30, 3748-3757.
  • Zhao, Y., Nicholson, L., Wang, H., Qian, Y., Hawthorne, W., Jimenez-Vera, E., Gloss, B., Lai, J., Thomas, A., Chew, Y., Rogers, N., Hu, M., et al (2024). Intragraft memory-like CD127hiCD4+Foxp3+ Tregs maintain transplant tolerance. JCI Insight, 9(6). [More Information]

2023

  • Ghimire, K., Kale, A., Li, J., Julovi, S., O'Connell, P., Grey, S., Hawthorne, W., Gunton, J., Rogers, N. (2023). A metabolic role for CD47 in pancreatic β cell insulin secretion and islet transplant outcomes. Science Translational Medicine, 15(717). [More Information]
  • Chen, T., Cao, Q., Wang, R., Zheng, G., Azmi, F., Lee, V., Wang, Y., Li, H., Yu, D., Rogers, N., Harris, D., Wang, Y., et al (2023). Attenuation of renal injury by depleting cDC1 and by repurposing Flt3 inhibitor in anti-GBM disease. Clinical Immunology, 250. [More Information]
  • Pittman, J., Abbott, J., Cavazzoni, E., Pleass, H., Brännstrom, M., Rogers, N., Deans, R. (2023). Deceased donor availability for uterus transplantation in Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 63(6), 780-785. [More Information]

2022

  • Dobrijevic, E., Au, E., Rogers, N., Clayton, P., Wong, G., Allen, R. (2022). Association Between Side of Living Kidney Donation and Post-Transplant Outcomes. Transplant International, 35. [More Information]
  • Yi, Z., Salem, F., Menon, M., Keung, K., Xi, C., Hultin, S., Haroon Al Rasheed, M., Li, L., Su, F., Sun, Z., Wong, G., Rogers, N., Shingde, M., O'Connell, P., et al (2022). Deep learning identified pathological abnormalities predictive of graft loss in kidney transplant biopsies. Kidney International, 101(2), 288-298. [More Information]
  • Lin, Y., Teixeira-Pinto, A., Opdam, H., Chapman, J., Craig, J., Rogers, N., Pleass, H., Davies, C., McDonald, S., Yang, J., Wong, G., et al (2022). Nonutilization of Kidneys from Donors after Circulatory Determinant of Death. Transplantation Direct, 8(6), E1331-E1331. [More Information]

2021

  • Hu, M., Rogers, N., Li, J., Zhang, G., Wang, Y., Shaw, K., O’connell, P., Alexander, S. (2021). Antigen Specific Regulatory T Cells in Kidney Transplantation and Other Tolerance Settings. Frontiers in Immunology, 12, 717594. [More Information]
  • Bampton, T., Holmes-Walker, D., Drogemuller, C., Radford, T., Anderson, P., Etherton, C., Russell, C., Khurana, S., Torpy, D., Couper, J., Benitez-Aguirre, P., Thomas, G., Pleass, H., et al (2021). Australian experience with total pancreatectomy with islet autotransplantation to treat chronic pancreatitis. ANZ Journal of Surgery, 91(12), 2663-2668. [More Information]
  • Chen, T., Cao, Q., Wang, R., Zheng, G., Azmi, F., Wang, J., Lee, V., Wang, Y., Yu, H., Patel, M., Rogers, N., Wang, Y., Harris, D., et al (2021). Conventional Type 1 Dendritic Cells (cDC1) in Human Kidney Diseases: Clinico-Pathological Correlations. Frontiers in Immunology, 12, 635212. [More Information]

2020

  • Webster, A., Hedley, J., Anderson, P., Hawthorne, W., Radford, T., Drogemuller, C., Rogers, N., Goodman, D., Lee, M., Loudovaris, T., Kelly, P. (2020). Australia and New Zealand Islet and Pancreas Transplant Registry Annual Report 2019: Islet Donations, Islet Isolations, and Islet Transplants. Transplantation Direct, 6(7), 1-12. [More Information]
  • Julovi, S., Sanganeria, B., Minhas, N., Ghimire, K., Nankivell, B., Rogers, N. (2020). Blocking thrombospondin-1 signaling via CD47 mitigates renal interstitial fibrosis. Laboratory Investigation, 100(9), 1184-1196. [More Information]
  • Ghimire, K., Li, Y., Chiba, T., Julovi, S., Li, J., Ross, M., Straub, A., O'Connell, P., Rüegg, C., Pagano, P., Rogers, N., et al (2020). CD47 Promotes Age-Associated Deterioration in Angiogenesis, Blood Flow and Glucose Homeostasis. Cells, 9(7), 1-21. [More Information]

2019

  • Webster, A., Hedley, J., Anderson, P., Hawthorne, W., Radford, T., Drogemuller, C., Rogers, N., Goodman, D., Lee, M., Loudovaris, T., Kelly, P. (2019). Australia and New Zealand Islet and Pancreas Transplant Registry Annual Report 2018-Islet Donations, Islet Isolations, and Islet Transplants. Transplantation Direct, 5(2), 1-9. [More Information]
  • Hameed, A., Lu, D., Patrick, E., Xu, B., Hu, M., Chew, Y., Keung, K., P'Ng, C., Gaspi, R., Zhang, C., Alexander, S., Thomas, G., Laurence, J., Wong, G., Yuen, L., Hawthorne, W., Rogers, N., Pleass, H., et al (2019). Brief Normothermic Machine Perfusion Rejuvenates Discarded Human Kidneys. Transplantation Direct, 5, 1-15. [More Information]
  • El-Rashid, M., Ghimire, K., Sanganeria, B., Lu, B., Rogers, N. (2019). CD47 limits autophagy to promote acute kidney injury. The FASEB Journal, 33(11), 12735-12749. [More Information]

2018

  • Hameed, A., Dervish, S., Rogers, N., Pleass, H., Hawthorne, W. (2018). A novel, customized 3D-printed perfusion chamber for normothermic machine perfusion of the kidney. Transplant International, 32(1), 107-109. [More Information]
  • Webster, A., Robertson, P., Mark, T., Hedley, J., Kelly, P., Anderson, P., Rogers, N., Coates, P. (2018). ANZIPTR Report 2018; Australia and New Zealand Islet and Pancreas Registry data 1984-2017..
  • Oey, O., Rao, P., Luciuk, M., Mannix, C., Rogers, N., Sagar, P., Wong, A., Rangan, G. (2018). Effect of dimethyl fumarate on renal disease progression in a genetic ortholog of nephronophthisis. Experimental Biology and Medicine, 243(5), 428-436. [More Information]

2017

  • Dwyer, K., Clark, C., MacDonald, K., Paraskeva, M., Rogers, N., Ryan, J., Webster, A., Wong, G. (2017). Gender equity in Transplantation: A Report from the Women in Transplantation Workshop of the Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand. Transplantation, 101(10), 2266-2270. [More Information]
  • Rogers, N., Ghimire, K., Calzada, M., Isenberg, J. (2017). Matricellular protein thrombospondin-1 in pulmonary hypertension: Multiple pathways to disease. Cardiovascular Research, 113(8), 858-868. [More Information]

Selected Grants

2024

  • Targeted Funding Call 2024, Rogers N, Faculty of Medicine and Health/Targeted Funding Call 2024

2023

  • Donor and recipient polygenic risk scores predictive of late graft loss, O'Connell P, Lim W, Li J, Wyburn K, Alexander S, Grey S, Wong G, Patrick E, Rogers N, Chadban S, Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal - administered by NHMRC)/Genomics Health Futures Mission - 2022 MRFF Genomics Health Futures Mission
  • Personalised medicine in the treatment of complex autoimmunity and autoinflammatory disease, Rogers N, Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal - administered by NHMRC)/MRFF Early to Mid-Career Researchers Grant