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Email

david.ascher@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
Baker Department of Cardiometabolic Health
Education
PhD
University of Melbourne
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
The University of Queensland
Bachelors Degree
Adelaide University
ORCID

0000-0003-2948-2413

Prof David Ascher

Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
Baker Department of Cardiometabolic Health

228 Scholarly works
6 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Transformers as a substrate for structural biology
    DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2025.103218
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Structome-TM: Complementing dataset assembly for structural phylogenetics by addressing size-based biases
    DOI: 10.1093/bioadv/vbag035
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Exploring a genetic basis for the metabolic perturbations in ME/CFS using UK biobank
    DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.114316
  • 2020

    Research Grant

    Using Protein Structure to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance
  • 2019

    Research grants (other domestic)

    ACRF Facility for Innovative Cancer Drug Discovery
  • 2018

    Journal article

    Frequent transmission of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing lineage and positive selection for the EsxW Beijing variant in Vietnam
    DOI: 10.1038/s41588-018-0117-9
  • 2016

    Research Grant

    Understanding the Molecular Mechanisms of Complex Mutations
David Ascher

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    kinCSM-RTK: Machine Learning-Based Screening of Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors in Drug Discovery
    DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.5c01677
  • 2026

    Journal article

    A three generation family with VACTERL association is found to have a rare form of diamond-blackfan anaemia
    DOI: 10.1038/s41431-026-02076-z
  • 2026

    Journal article

    mCSM-metal: A Deep Learning Resource to Predict Effect of Mutations on Metal Ion Binding
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2026.169678
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Systematic evaluation of computational tools to predict the effects of mutations on protein-ligand binding affinity in the absence of experimental structures
    DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbag035
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Structome-AlignViewer: On Confidence Assessment in Structure-Aware Alignments
    DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evag004
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Proximity proteomics reveals a mechanism of fatty acid transfer at lipid droplet-mitochondria- endoplasmic reticulum contact sites
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-57405-5
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Combinatorial Discovery of RAFT Cationic Polymers for mRNA Delivery: Structure–Function Insights from High-Throughput Screening and Machine Learning
    DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.5c01236

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2020

    Internal Research Grant

    Structure Guided Mapping of Protein Interactions and Their Perturbation

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