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Email

jake.shortt@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Clinical (Professor)
The Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology
Education
PhD
University of Melbourne
Bachelors Degree
University of Otago
Bachelors Degree
University of Otago
ORCID

0000-0003-3185-6488

Prof Jake Shortt

Clinical (Professor)
The Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology

251 Scholarly works
5 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Discovery and Characterization of VPRBP/DCAF1 Kinase Inhibitor Analogs as Microtubular Destabilizing Agents with Potent Antimyeloma Activity
    DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-25-0306
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Phase 2 study of the lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1) inhibitor bomedemstat for essential thrombocythemia.
    DOI: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2025017575
  • 2026

    Journal article

    The PINNACLE study: A multicentre phase II trial of nilotinib in combination with pegylated interferon-α2b in newly diagnosed chronic phase chronic myeloid leukaemia
    DOI: 10.1111/bjh.70276
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Impact of ASXL1 at diagnosis in patients with CML receiving frontline potent TKIs: high risk of kinase domain mutations
    DOI: 10.1182/blood.2025030259
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Insights from the largest diverse ancestry sex-specific disease map for genetically predicted height
    DOI: 10.1038/s41525-025-00464-w
  • 2018

    Research Grant

    Targeting Transcriptional Addiction for Cancer Therapy.
  • 2017

    Research Grant

    Exploiting and Defining the Immune Regulatory Activities of Bet Bromodomain Inhibitors
Jake Shortt

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2013
Presidential Award Australian & New Zealand Society of Blood Transfusion
2011
Albert Baikie Memorial Medal Haematology Society of Australia & New Zealand
2008
Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP)
2008
Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia ( FRCPA)

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    Concomitant IV vancomycin causing delayed high-dose methotrexate clearance and acute kidney injury
    DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkaf299
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Targeted protein degraders of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro are more active than enzymatic inhibition alone with activity against nirmatrelvir resistant virus
    DOI: 10.1038/s43856-025-00863-1
  • 2025

    Journal article

    EZH2 and CREBBP mutation status identify a subset of patients who benefit from bendamustine- over CHOP/CVP-based immunochemotherapies in follicular lymphoma: Findings from the GALLIUM trial and validation in a large international cohort
    DOI: 10.1182/blood-2025-52
  • 2025

    Journal article

    P300/CBP acetyltransferase inhibition and degradation disrupt oncogenic transcriptional programs and reveal epigenetic vulnerabilities in multiple myeloma
    DOI: 10.1182/blood-2025-5717
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Clinical benefit of luspatercept in erythropoiesis-stimulating agent (ESA)-naive patients (pts) with early disease characteristics and very low-, low-, or intermediate-risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes (LR-MDS): A post hoc analysis from the commands trial
    DOI: 10.1182/blood-2025-792

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2014

    Research Grant

    Awakening Dormant Genes to Help the Immune System Fight Blood Cancers
  • 2015

    Research Grant

    Discovery of New Treatments for Therapy-Resistant Multiple Myeloma.
  • 2015

    Research Grant

    Overcoming Resistance to Bromodomain Inhibition in Myc-Driven Lymphoma

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