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Lab focus: Genetic basis of cancer and cell death control
Impaired cell death is now recognised as an important step towards cancer, and a major barrier to effective anti-cancer therapy. Our team's discoveries on apoptosis have galvanised the search for drugs that directly engage the cell’s apoptotic machinery, as a new way to treat cancer.
One such drug has been approved for an aggressive form of leukaemia and is under trial for many other malignancies.
One major goal of our research is to determine how drugs that promote cell death can be used most effectively to improve cancer treatment. We also aim to clarify further how apoptosis is controlled and how the control goes awry in cancer.
Our primary focus is better understanding of cell death mechanisms, which should expedite the search for better ways to control cell death to improve therapy.
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
FAACR - Fellow of the Academy of the American Association for Cancer Research
FRS - Fellow of the Royal Society
FAA - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
Credentials
Positions
Honorary
Medical Biology (W.E.H.I.)
Education
Bachelor of Science
Institution not known
Doctor of Philosophy
Harvard University