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Email

joankh@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
Department of Medical Biology (WEHI)
Education
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
University of Cambridge
PhD
University of Cambridge
ORCID

0000-0001-6955-232X

Prof Joan Heath

Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
Department of Medical Biology (WEHI)

193 Scholarly works
0 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    Inhibition of the minor spliceosome restricts the growth of a broad spectrum of cancers
    DOI: 10.1038/s44319-025-00511-8
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Taxonomy of introns and the evolution of minor introns
    DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkae550
  • 2023

    Journal article

    ahctf1 and kras mutations combine to amplify oncogenic stress and restrict liver overgrowth in a zebrafish model of hepatocellular carcinoma
    DOI: 10.7554/eLife.73407
  • 2022

    Journal article

    Development of NanoLuc-targeting protein degraders and a universal reporter system to benchmark tag-targeted degradation platforms
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29670-1
  • 2022

    Journal article

    PHLPP1 regulates CFTR activity and lumen expansion through AMPK
    DOI: 10.1242/dev.200955/2158779/dev200955
  • 2022

    Journal article

    Joan Heath interviews Suzanne Cory and Joan Steitz: a female perspective of science in the swinging ‘60s
    DOI: 10.1242/dmm.049609
  • 2021

    Journal article

    The RNA helicase Ddx21 controls Vegfc-driven developmental lymphangiogenesis by balancing endothelial cell ribosome biogenesis and p53 function
    DOI: 10.1038/s41556-021-00784-w
Joan Heath

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


1989
American Society of Bone and Mineral Research
1989
International Conferernce on Calcium Regulating Hormones
1984
British Society for Dental Research

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2021

    Journal article

    Disruption of exon-bridging interactions between the minor and major spliceosomes results in alternative splicing around minor introns
    DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab118
  • 2018

    Journal article

    Early developmental arrest and impaired gastrointestinal homeostasis in U12-dependent splicing-defective Rnpc3-deficient mice
    DOI: 10.1261/rna.068221.118
  • 2018

    Journal article

    Inhibitors of histone acetyltransferases KAT6A/B induce senescence and arrest tumour growth
    DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0387-5

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