Minal Menezes

Dr. Minal Menezes is a Conjoint Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney's Sydney Medical School, affiliated with The Children's Hospital at Westmead Clinical School. Her expertise lies at the intersection of genetics, mitochondrial biology, and paediatric anaesthesia. She holds a PhD from Sydney Medical School and has transitioned her research focus to anaesthesia while maintaining work on genetic disorders. Her current role involves expanding research programs, mentoring medical registrars, and supporting clinical research initiatives.

Education: PhD from Sydney Medical School. Research interests include the diagnosis and management of mitochondrial respiratory chain disorders, genetic disease biomarkers, and anaesthesia-related outcomes in children. She has contributed to studies on stem cell therapies for phenylketonuria, genetic variants in TOR1A, and genome sequencing in mitochondrial disease diagnostics.

Current projects involve roles as co-investigator and trial coordinator in studies such as 'Cyanotic Congenital Heart disease' (nitrogen species in hypoxaemia adaptation), the T-REX study (neurodevelopmental outcomes of anaesthesia in infancy), and 'MOMIS II' (nitrate/nitrite levels during cardiopulmonary bypass). Her work spans cellular/molecular approaches and clinical specialities in anaesthesia.

Grants: Recipient of a 2015 grant titled 'Nonsense suppression as a treatment for phenylketonuria.' Her research bridges basic science and clinical practice, emphasizing translational applications in paediatric healthcare.