Dr Olga Sukocheva

Dr Sukocheva has been working as Research Scientist and Lecturer at Flinders University (2010-2021). Dr Sukocheva is an adjunct Lecturer at Griffith University, Menzies Health Institute (Queensland). Since July 2021, Dr Sukocheva has been recruited by SA Health as Senior Public Health Officer.

The list of her publications (and citation index) can be found here Google Scholar Sukocheva and here ORCID Sukocheva; https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6602940090

Dr Olga Sukocheva completed Ph.D. in Biophysics in 1997 (Uzbekistan). She was awarded Muskie Fellowship in 1999 and had an opportunity to earn Masters in Public Health (MPH) at State University of New York (SUNY, NY, USA) and work as a Postdoctoral Scientist at New York State Department of Health, Wadsworth Laboratories.

In 2001, Dr Sukocheva was appointed as postdoctoral research scientist and later on as senior research officer at Hanson Cancer Research Institute (SA Pathology, Division of Human Immunology,currently - Centre for Cancer Biology (CCB)) where Dr Sukocheva worked till the end of 2009 investigating potential therapeutic targets against mammary cancers and infection-linked pathologies.

In 2010, Dr Sukocheva was awarded CME Kelly Cancer Research Fellowship at Flinders University and joined Professor David Watson oesophageal cancer research laboratory. Working at Flinders Department of Surgery, Sukocheva aimed to address the role of oestrogen receptor modulators in regulation of oesophageal cancer cell growth.The project was supported by SAHMRI "Beat the Cancer" grant.

During last 7 years (2015-2021), Olga Sukocheva has been teaching several Health Sciences/Statistical data analysis-related subjects at the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders.

Dr Sukocheva's ongoing research interests belong to the field of lipid signalling, inflammation, and epigenetic regulation of cancer cell metabolism.