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Email

vihandha.wickramasinghe@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Principal Research Fellow
Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Education
PhD
University of Cambridge
ORCID

0000-0002-9438-3457

A/Prof Vihandha Wickramasinghe

Principal Research Fellow
Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology

22 Scholarly works
8 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    mRNA export factors store nascent transcripts within nuclear speckles as an adaptive response to transient global inhibition of transcription
    DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2024.12.008
  • 2025

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Circular RNA Transport and Function
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Prediction of m6A and m5C at single-molecule resolution reveals a transcriptome-wide co-occurrence of RNA modifications
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47953-7
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Nuclear export of circular RNA
    DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07060-5
  • 2022

    Journal article

    Adaptive translational reprogramming of metabolism limits the response to targeted therapy in BRAFV600 melanoma
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28705-x
  • 2021

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Exploiting Messenger RNA Export as a Novel Therapeutic Strategy to Treat Cancer
  • 2021

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Pathways That Regulate Nuclear Export of Circular RNA
Vihandha Wickramasinghe

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2022

    Journal article

    Pathogenic variants in nucleoporin TPR (translocated promoter region, nuclear basket protein) cause severe intellectual disability in humans
    DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddab248
  • 2021

    Journal article

    Targeting histone acetylation dynamics and oncogenic transcription by catalytic P300/CBP inhibition
    DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2021.04.015
  • 2021

    Journal article

    RNA in cancer
    DOI: 10.1038/s41568-020-00306-0
  • 2020

    Journal article

    Germline heterozygous mutations in Nxf1 perturb RNA metabolism and trigger thrombocytopenia and lymphopenia in mice
    DOI: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2019001323
  • 2019

    Journal article

    A systems view of spliceosomal assembly and branchpoints with iCLIP
    DOI: 10.1038/s41594-019-0300-4
  • 2019

    Conference Proceedings

    Complex-centric proteome profiling by SEC-SWATH-MS

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2025

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Circular RNA Transport and Function
  • 2019

    Research Contracts

    Salary Contribution - Ci DR Vihandha Wickramsinghe - Teaching Bcmb30002 Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics

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