Corrine earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Biochemistry with first class honours from The University of Western Australia graduating equal top of her year. She went on to complete a PhD in Chemistry/Biochemistry at the University of Western Australia, for which she received a Hackett Postgraduate Research Scholarship. Her PhD thesis focused on the structural characterisation and design of a peptide inhibitor targeting Grb7.
Corrine was awarded a National Health and Medical Research Council Training Fellowship (Peter Doherty Fellowship) to work in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Monash University. While working at Monash, she investigated the molecular mechanism of bacterial conjugation in the Gram-positive bacterium, Clostridium perfringens.
Corrine also completed a research fellowship within the ARC Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics at Monash University. During this time she worked to determine the structure and function of various drug and vaccine targets from human and livestock pathogens. She has published eighteen peer reviewed research articles, including seven as first author and three as senior author, and has presented her work at both national and international conferences.
More recently Corrine earned a Master of Laws (Juris Doctor) from Monash University and received three top subject student awards, including the Raymond Hind Prize for Patents for Inventions.
Corrine is a registered Australian Patent and Trade Mark Attorney.