Dr Annabelle Small

Research Fellow

College of Medicine and Public Health

annabelle.small@flinders.edu.au

Flinders Medical Centre Building

Dr. Annabelle Small is an early career research fellow in the Rheumatology Research Group in the College of Medicine and Public Health at Flinders University. Her research is focussed on understanding the individual variability in response to treatments in rheumatoid arthritis, and how immune cell interactions drive these responses.

Qualifications

Ph.D. in Molecular and Biomedical Science

Conferred March 2021, University of Adelaide

Complement Receptor Immunoglobulin (CRIg): Expression and Function in Health and Disease

B.Sc. (with 1st Class Honours)

2015, University of Adelaide

B.Sc.

2014, University of Adelaide, Double Major in Immunology and Microbiology

Honours, awards and grants

Grant Funding:

2025 Arthritis Australia National Grants Research Program – Arthritis Australia – $50,000, CIA
2024 Arthritis Australia National Grants Research Program – Arthritis Australia – $20,000, CIA
2022 Postdoctoral Career Advancement Award – Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology (ASI) - $7,000
Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute (FHMRI) Kickstart Program Grant 2021-2022 – Flinders University – $20,000, CIA

Awards:

2024 John Chalmers Travel Fellowship – Flinders University
2022 Philip Alpers Award for Best Scientific Presentation, ‘The treatment-naïve rheumatoid arthritis metabolome’ – South Australian Branch of the Australian Rheumatology Association
2022 European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) 2022 Congress Meeting Travel Bursary, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021 Philip Alpers Award for Best Scientific Presentation, ‘Attenuation of the BTLA/HVEM regulatory network in the circulation in primary Sjögren’s Syndrome’ – South Australian Branch of the Australian Rheumatology Association
2021 Carer’s Award – Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology (ASI)
2021 Networking Engagement Prize – BLiSS Science and Innovation Inc. Networking for Collaboration 2021 event
2019 People’s Choice – Best Rapid-Fire Oral Presentation – Robinson Research Institute (RRI) 2019 Symposium
2016 Travel bursary for the International Congress of Immunology, Melbourne, Vic – Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology (ASI)