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Professor Antony BraithwaiteMSc, PhD

Professor Antony Braithwaite is head of the Cell Transformational Unit at the Children's Medical Research Institute, based at the University of Sydney. He splits his time between Otago and Sydney.

Antony completed his Bachelor and Masters of Science degrees at the University of Auckland before embarking on his PhD at the Australian National University. Antony was awarded a Howard Florey Fellowship and worked at the Marie Curie Cancer Research Institute in the UK, before returning to the Australian National University to lead a team studying basic mechanisms in cancer cell formation. In 1996, he took up a personal Professorship in Pathology at Otago.

Antony's research is focused on the regulation of cell proliferation and cell survival and the role played by the tumour suppressor protein, p53.

Publications

Wang, S., Shafaei Pishabad, Z., Sarkar, D., Arun Bhandarkar, A., Sarwar, M., Jeffs, A., Reid, G., Braithwaite, A., & Mehta, S. (2026). YBX1 expression marks proliferative tumour states with context-dependent genomic instability: A pan-cancer analysis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 27(10), 4340. doi: 10.3390/ijms27104340 Journal - Research Article

Bhandarkar, A. A., Kelly-Foleni, N. E., Sarkar, D., Jeffs, A., Slatter, T., Braithwaite, A., & Mehta, S. (2025). TP53 splice mutations have tumour-independent effects on genomic stability and prognosis: An in silico study. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 26, 12080. doi: 10.3390/ijms262412080 Journal - Research Article

Polwatta Lekamlage, S., Boix De Jesus, A. N., Machado Saraiva, A., Drummond, C., Dolan, H., March de Ribot, F., Royds, J. A., Mehta, S., Braithwaite, A. W., Hung, N. A., & Slatter, T. L. (2025). Δ133p53 isoform enhances TLR4 function to promote tumour growth. Carcinogenesis, 46(4), bgaf051. doi: 10.1093/carcin/bgaf051 Journal - Research Article

Bhandarkar, A. A., Sarkar, D., Jeffs, A., Kelly-Foleni, N. E., Braithwaite, A., Slatter, T., & Mehta, S. (2025). Role of the TP53 splice mutations in cancer progression. Proceedings of the Genetics Otago (GO) Annual Symposium. Retrieved from https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/go Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Shafaei Pishabad, Z., Sarkar, D., Jeffs, A., Samaratunga, H., Rhodes, J., Costello, R., Highton, A., Wright, D., Pattison, S., Kemp, R., Delahunt, B., Braithwaite, A., Slatter, T., & Mehta, S. (2025). Development of a prognostic tool for identifying high-risk prostate cancer patients. Proceedings of the Genetics Otago (GO) Annual Symposium. Retrieved from https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/go Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

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