Heads of Department
- Professor Julia Horsfield Head of Department
- Associate Professor Tania Slatter Deputy Head of Department
- Dr Glen Reid Deputy Head of Department
Academic staff
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Dr Satya Amirapu
Molecular medicine and pathology with special interest in chronic rhinosinusitis, liver diseases, gastrointestinal diseases, cancer biology and brain disorders
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Dr Jisha Antony
Chromatin organisation in cancer
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Professor Antony Braithwaite
Molecular mechanisms of cancer; tumour suppressors; p53
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Associate Professor Heather Brooks
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Research Associate Professor Aniruddha Chatterjee
Epigenetics
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Associate Professor Heather Cunliffe
Translational biomarker discovery in breast and ovarian cancer
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Dr Braeden Donaldson
The development of immunotherapeutic vaccines as novel cancer therapies
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Dr Catherine Drummond
The emergence of drug tolerant persistors in response to targeted cancer therapy
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Professor Michael Eccles
Genetic, environmental and epigenetic (developmental) mechanisms in cancer
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Honorary Cinical Associate Professor James M Faed
Cell culture, haematology, transfusion medicine, iron and blood donor health
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Dr Nicholas Fleming
Mechanisms of cancer establishment and progression
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Mr Gregory Gimenez
Genomics, bioinformatics
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Samuel Hawarden
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Professor Merilyn Hibma
Immune regulation and its contribution to skin pathogenesis
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Professor Julia Horsfield
Developmental biology, genetics and epigenetics
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Dr Noelyn Hung
Anatomical pathologist with subspecialist interest in perinatal medicine, oncology, and autoimmunity
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Dr Kunyu Li
Immunotherapies and immunoregulation in chronic diseases
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Dr Michelle Lindsay
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Jacqueline Ludgate
Genetic/Epigenetic origins of childhood leukaemia
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Dr Kevin Ly
P53 isoforms in cancer, IBD and obesity
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Dr Chiemi Lynch-Sutherland
Shared mechanisms of early human development and cancer
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Dr Erin Macaulay
Epigenetic regulation of early human development and later-life disease
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Dr David Markie
Clinical biochemistry and Molecular genetics
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Dr Cushla McKinney
p53 isoforms, cancer and drug resistance
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Dr Sunali Mehta
Cancer research
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Dr Michael Meier
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Professor Ian Morison
Epigenetics and genetics of blood disorders and development and laboratory haematology
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Dr Silke Neumann
Cancer research and stroke immunology/immune therapy
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Richard Parker
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Dr Elizabeth Holly Perry
Immunogenetics, transfusion science, educational research
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Dr Magdalena Ratajska
Cancer genetics
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Dr Karen Reader
Ovarian cancer
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Dr Glen Reid
Translational cancer research
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Dr Euan Rodger
Epigenetics events in cancer
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Catherine Ronayne
Medical laboratory science, lipid epidemiology, active learning and interprofessional education
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Dr Adriana Saraiva
Brain tumour subtypes, Glioblastoma and Meningioma
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Associate Professor Tania Slatter
Molecular and experimental pathology and translational medicine with a special interest in cancer, perinatal medicine, and autoimmune disease
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Dr Jim Smith
I am involved in molecular profiling of human cancers with the aim of clinical biomarker development
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Paul Spek
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Dr Cherie-Ann Stayner
Molecular basis of polycystic kidney disease
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Dr Peter Stockwell
Bioinformatics
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Allison Tschirley
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Dr Anna Wiles
Cancer cell biology
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Dr Adele Woolley
Cytoskeletal dynamics in cell cycle and cell migration
Professional staff
- Elise Velenski Lead Administrator
- Cate Lippers Client Service Administrator, HOD Support
- Olivia Moreton Client Service Administrator
- Alex McNaughton Client Service Administrator
- Katie Young Tesearch Laboratory Manager
- Sylvia Zellhuber-McMillan Research Technician
- Mandy Bacon Teaching Laboratory Technician
- Dr Issam Mayyas Teaching Laboratory Technician
- Michelle Wilson Laboratory Technician
- Lynne Hananeia Compliance Manager
- Doug Mackie Otago Zebrafish Facility Manager
- Sharon White Restoration Technician
PhD students
- Priya Ajithkumar
- Filipina Amosa-Lei Sam
- Rakesh Banerjee
- Alexandra Boix
- Hannah Darroch
- Will Davis
- Mark Ezegbogu
- Luke Henderson
- Mehbuba Hossain
- Amy Jones
- Morgan Jones
- Anastasia Labudina
- Lei Li
- Nicholas Keestra
- Estelle Peyroux
- Sasini Polwatta
- Ryan Powell
- Sankalita Ray
- Dana Reid
- Jildou van der Werf
- Sai Shyam Vasantharajan
- David Wang
- Qi Zheng