Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
Programs: named to Breakthrough Victoria's Breakthrough Fellowship Program (2025) (a place in a program cohort, not a position there).
Stories naming Dr Noor E Karishma Shaik. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Victorian pre-seed program BVUIP, backed by Breakthrough Victoria and seven universities, has funded startups EntroMat, Excelligent and Remagine Labs, plus fellowship grants for three PhD-led ventures.
Breakthrough Victoria interviews fellow Noor E Karishma Shaik, founder of DeepDerm, on building DermAI, an AI skin-cancer detection tool, her clinical trial breakthrough with nurses, and lessons from her first year as a founder.
Breakthrough Victoria has chosen three academic founders for its new fellowship, providing each with $150,000 to help commercialise research in mental health, IVF and skin cancer detection.
Breakthrough Victoria announces the first three fellows of its $7.5 million fellowship, giving each researcher $150,000 and support to turn research into startups in mental health games, IVF imaging and skin cancer detection.
Breakthrough Victoria's fellowship has put $150,000 into DeepDerm, a startup building AI to spot skin cancer without biopsies, founded by University of Melbourne researcher Noor E Karishma Shaik.