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- Professor Peter Colman
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- Professor Phil Hodgkin
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- Professor Terry Speed
- Professor Tony Burgess
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- Professor Warren Alexander
- Diseases
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- 6 cysteine proteins key mediators between malaria parasites and human host
- A balancing act of immunity: autoimmunity versus malignancies
- Analysing single cell technologies to understand breast cancer
- Bioinformatics methods for detecting and making sense of somatic genomic rearrangements
- Characterising new regulators in inflammatory signalling pathways
- Computational melanoma genomics
- Control of human lymphocyte cell expansion in complex immune diseases
- Deciphering biophysical changes in red blood cell membrane during malaria parasite infection
- Deciphering the signalling functions of pseudokinases
- Deep profiling of blood cancers during targeted therapy
- Determining the mechanism of type I cytokine receptor triggering
- Differential expression analysis of RNA-seq using multivariate variance modelling
- Discovering new genetic causes of primary antibody deficiencies
- Discovery of novel drug combinations for the treatment of bowel cancer
- Drug targets and compounds that block growth of malaria parasites
- Enabling deubiquitinase drug discovery
- Epigenetic drivers of immune cell function
- Exploiting cell death pathways in regulatory T cells for cancer immunotherapy
- Fatal attraction: how apoptotic pore assembly is governed during mitochondrial cell death
- Genomic instability and the immune microenvironment in lung cancer
- How do T lymphocytes decide their fate?
- How the epigenetic regulator SMCHD1 works and how to target it to treat disease
- Human monoclonal antibodies against malaria infection
- Identifying novel treatment options for ovarian carcinosarcoma
- Inflammasome activation in autoinflammatory disease
- Investigating mechanisms of cell death and survival using zebrafish
- Investigating microbial natural products with anti-protozoal activity
- Investigating the role of mutant p53 in cancer
- Investigating the role of platelets in motor neuron disease
- Mapping DNA repair networks in cancer
- Molecular mechanisms controlling embryonic lung progenitor cells
- Nanobodies against malaria
- Neutrophil heterogeneity in inflammation
- New approaches to treat cancer and inflammatory disease using the ubiquitin system
- Next generation CRISPR screens using iPSC
- Novel cell death and inflammatory modulators in lupus
- Programming T cells to defend against infections
- Restraining cytokine-receptor signalling in myeloproliferative neoplasms
- Screening for regulators of jumping genes
- Statistical analysis of genome-wide chromatin organisation using Hi-C
- Statistical analysis of trapped-ion-mobility time-of-flight mass spectrometry proteomics data
- Structure and function of E3 ubiquitin ligases
- Target identification of potent antimalarial agents
- The mitochondrial TOM complex in neurodegenerative disease
- The molecular mechanisms underlying Kir4.1 activity in gliomas
- The role of differential splicing in the genesis of breast cancer
- Uncovering the roles of long non-coding RNAs in human bowel cancer
- Understanding malaria infection dynamics
- Understanding the molecular basis of chromosome instability in gastric cancer
- Utilising pre-clinical models to discover novel therapies for tuberculosis
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Executive
The Institute is managed by the Director and Deputy Directors. These positions are supported by Scientific and Professional Services management.
Professor Doug Hilton, Director
Professor Alan Cowman, Deputy Director, Scientific Strategy
Ms Samantha Ludolf, Deputy Director, Strategy and Operations
Professor David Vaux, Deputy Director, Science Integrity and Ethics
Research themes
Professor Warren Alexander, Joint Leader, Cancer Research and Treatments
Professor Melanie Bahlo, Leader, Healthy Development and Ageing
Professor Guillaume Lessene, Leader, New Medicines and Advanced Technologies
Professor Tony Papenfuss, Leader, Computational Biology
Professor Andrew Roberts, Joint Leader, Cancer Research and Treatments
Professor John Silke, Leader, Infection, Inflammation and Immunity
Scientific divisions
Professor Geoff Lindeman, Joint Division Head, ACRF Cancer Biology and Stem Cells
Professor Jane Visvader, Joint Division Head, ACRF Cancer Biology and Stem Cells
Associate Professor Isabelle Lucet, Division Head, ACRF Chemical Biology
Dr Kelly Rogers, Division Head, Advanced Technology and Biology
Dr Melissa Davis, Joint Division Head, Bioinformatics
Professor Gordon Smyth, Joint Division Head, Bioinformatics
Professor Andreas Strasser, Division Head, Blood Cells and Blood Cancer
Professor Clare Scott, Joint Division Head, Clinical Translation
Professor Ian Wicks, Joint Division Head, Clinical Translation
Associate Professor Marnie Blewitt, Joint Division Head, Epigenetics and Development
Associate Professor Anne Voss, Joint Division Head, Epigenetics and Development
Associate Professor Daniel Gray, Joint Division Head, Immunology
Professor Phil Hodgkin, Joint Division Head, Immunology
Professor Marc Pellegrini, Joint Division Head, Infectious Diseases and Immune Defence
Associate Professor Wai-Hong Tham, Joint Division Head, Infectious Diseases and Immune Defence
Associate Professor James Murphy, Division Head, Inflammation
Professor Peter Gibbs, Joint Division Head, Personalised Oncology
Associate Professor Marie-Liesse Labat, Joint Division Head, Personalised Oncology
Professor Ivo Mueller, Joint Division Head, Population Health and Immunity
Dr Sant-Rayn Pasricha, Joint Division Head, Population Health and Immunity
Associate Professor Matt Call, Joint Division Head, Structural Biology
Associate Professor Peter Czabotar, Joint Division Head, Structural Biology
Professor David Komander, Division Head, Ubiquitin Signalling
Professional Services
Mr Stan Balbata, Internal Auditor
Dr Keely Bumsted O'Brien, Head, Scientific Education
Mr Michael Carolan, Chief Information Officer
Mr Joel Chibert, Chief Financial Officer
Mr Steve Droste, Facilities Manager
Ms Wendy Hertan, Head, Library and Information Management
Ms Carolyn MacDonald, Head, Communications and Marketing
Ms Elizabeth McMahon, Head, People and Culture
Dr Helene Martin, Head, Laboratory Operations
Ms Chela Niall, Head, Legal and Licensing
Ms Catherine Parker, Planning Manager
Dr Anne-Laure Puaux, Head, Commercialisation
