Rate My Professor Vicky Phillips

Vicky Phillips earned her Bachelor of Physical Education with First Class Honours in 2005 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 2010 from the University of Otago. Her doctoral research examined the effects of exercise training modalities on fat oxidation in overweight and obese women, under the supervision of Lynnette Jones in the School of Physical Education. She contributed to related work, including a study on maximal physiological responses between aquatic and land-based graded exercise tests in overweight women, published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise in 2008.

Currently, Vicky Phillips is the Laboratory Manager in the Department of Surgical Sciences at the University of Otago's Dunedin School of Medicine. In this capacity, she has provided critical technical laboratory assistance and co-authored numerous publications in areas such as vascular biology, aortic stenosis, abdominal aortic aneurysms, colorectal cancer immunology, and molecular profiling techniques. Her support has been acknowledged in multiple studies, enabling advancements in understanding disease mechanisms and biomarkers.

Selected key publications include 'Inflammatory and regulatory T cells contribute to a unique immune milieu in colorectal cancer' (International Journal of Cancer, 2013), 'Integrated microRNA and messenger RNA analysis in aortic stenosis' (Scientific Reports, 2016), 'A variant of the castor zinc finger 1 (CASZ1) gene is differentially regulated after successful abdominal aortic aneurysm repair' (Scientific Reports, 2019), 'Circulating microRNA Profiling Needs Further Refinement Before Implementation as a Biomarker of Aortic Aneurysm' (Journal of the American Heart Association, 2015), 'Oligonucleotide array outperforms SNP array on formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue for cancer mutation profiling' (Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics, 2010), and 'T cell subpopulations in lymph nodes may not be predictive of patient outcome in colorectal cancer' (Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research, 2011).