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Email

karenes@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Honorary Conjoint Principal Fellow
The Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology
ORCID

0000-0002-2798-4703

A/Prof Karen Sheppard

Honorary Conjoint Principal Fellow
The Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology

96 Scholarly works
8 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    Sensitivity to immune checkpoint inhibitors in BRAF/MEK inhibitor refractory melanoma
    DOI: 10.1136/jitc-2025-011551
  • 2025

    Journal article

    BRAF/MEK inhibition following immune checkpoint inhibitors promotes antitumor immunity associated with expansion of progenitor-exhausted CD8⁺ T cells
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcskn.2025.100737
  • 2024

    Research grants (other domestic)

    The Biology of Melanoma Organ-Specific Metastases and Response to Therapy
  • 2019

    Research Grant

    Inhibition of Prmt5 as a Cancer Therapy
  • 2017

    Research grants (other domestic)

    Novel Approaches for Overcoming Resistance to Therapies for Advanced Melanoma
  • 2014

    Journal article

    Response of BRAF-mutant melanoma to BRAF inhibition is mediated by a network of transcriptional regulators of glycolysis
    DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-13-0440
  • 2013

    Journal article

    Targeted-capture massively-parallel sequencing enables robust detection of clinically informative mutations from formalin-fixed tumours
    DOI: 10.1038/srep03494
Karen Sheppard

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2024

    Journal article

    Intra- and inter-tumoral heterogeneity of melanoma across different metastatic sites
    DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.TUMBODY-B001
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Single cell RNA-sequencing coupled with lineage tracing identifies novel clonal populations associated with immunotherapy resistance
    DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.TUMBODY-C044
  • 2023

    Journal article

    PRMT5 and CDK4/6 inhibition result in distinctive patterns of alternative splicing in melanoma
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292278
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Sequencing of targeted- and immune-therapy: delineating time dependent changes in both melanoma cells and the immune microenvironment
    DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.AM2023-5941
  • 2023

    Journal article

    The therapeutic potential of targeting minimal residual disease in melanoma
    DOI: 10.1002/ctm2.1197
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Inhibition of the MNK1/2-eIF4E Axis Augments Palbociclib-Mediated Antitumor Activity in Melanoma and Breast Cancer
    DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-22-0092
  • 2022

    Journal article

    Harnessing the immunotherapeutic potential of CDK4/6 inhibitors in melanoma: is timing everything?
    DOI: 10.1038/s41698-022-00273-9
  • 2022

    Journal article

    Adaptive translational reprogramming of metabolism limits the response to targeted therapy in BRAFV600 melanoma
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28705-x

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