Dr Abraham Kuot

Research Fellow

College of Medicine and Public Health

+61 8 85861035

abraham.kuot@flinders.edu.au

Flinders Medical Centre

GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Abraham Kuot is a Research Fellow in Eye and Vision Research within the College of Medicine and Public Health at the Flinders University of South Australia. He is a molecular biologist, geneticist and a public health researcher with 16 years of research experience; thus contributing to significant knowledge production in the field of ophthalmology in particular. He completed his PhD in Medical Research at the Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders University in 2015. Dr Kuot's current research focuses broadly at the investigation and understanding of the genetics and non-genetics causes and mechanisms of human eye diseases, predominantly glaucoma.

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy in Medicine (PhD(Med)), Flinders University (2015)

Bachelor of Science (Honours, BSc(Hons)), Flinders University (2010)

Bachelor of Innovation & Enterprise in Science and Technology (BIEST), Flinders University (2008)

Bachelor of Medical Science (BMedSci), Flinders University (2007)

Honours, awards and grants

2023 - Present: Research Fellowship in Eye and Vision, MRFF Genomics Health Futures Mission Grant, Flinders University

2018 – 2020: Research Fellowship, Dementia and Aged Care Services Fund (Australian Department of Health), Flinders University

2012 – 2014: Postgraduate Research Scholarship, Flinders University ($24,875 per annum)

2012 – 2014: Postgraduate Research Top-up Scholarship ($6,000 per annum), Faculty of Health Sciences, Flinders University

2013: Student Publication Award ($500), Flinders University

2012: Student Publication Award ($500), Flinders University

2011: Flinders Medical Centre Foundation Grant ($16,000), Flinders University

2010: Honours Scholarship ($2,500), Flinders University

2006 – 2007: Commonwealth Learning Scholarship ($2,100 per annum), Flinders University

2006: Golden Key International Honours Society membership certificate award (top 15% of the best performing first year University students in 2005)

2005: Flinders First Year Education Costs Bursary ($500), Flinders University

Key responsibilities

Active contribution to research activities by conducting experiments, and collaborating with internal and external research teams or groups to successfully deliver various projects milestones and expected outcomes

Establishing and maintaining research collaborations within Flinders University, and externally

Independent contribution to planning and execution of research projects by reviewing relevant literature and other sources of information

Active participation in the production of research data, and writing and editing of publications arising from research studies

Independent contribution to ethical, high quality and innovative research and evaluation through scholarship, publishing in high quality journals and assisting the preparation and submission of bids for external research funding (Grants)

Research projects execution and management

Supervisory interests

Glaucoma genetics

Expert for media contact

Eyes

Genetics/Genetic engineering

Medical research

Medicine

Molecular biology

Opthalmology

Available for contact via

+61 8 85861035