Dr. Xanthe Venn

Dr Xanthe Venn is Senior Research Fellow in Regenerative Medicine at Adelaide University’s Future Industries Institute (FII) and Vice President of the Australasian Wound and Tissue Repair Society (AWTRS). Awarded her PhD from the University of South Australia for the investigation of the role of the cytoskeletal protein Flightless I in tissue regeneration in 2016, Xanthe has more than 30 peer-reviewed publications and received over $1.5 million in research income. A molecular biologist with a deep research background in impaired wound healing, her research in burns, fibrosis and chronic non-healing wounds has been recognised nationally and internationally having won Young Investigator awards from both the AWTRS and European Tissue Repair Society (ETRS) and named a South Australian Young Tall Poppy of Science. Currently, there are no effective diagnostic tools to predict whether a patient will develop a chronic non-healing wound or suffer from debilitating scar formation, nor effective treatments to prevent this. Therefore, Xanthe is working closely with both clinicians and industry to improve healing outcomes for burns patients and reduce the risk of amputation and increased mortality due to non-healing wounds for diabetic patients.