Our research team is well positioned with world class facilities, and a tissue bank of over 6000 patient samples. This facilitates our team to maintain an extensive program of local and international collaborations with other research centres:
Australia
- Associate Professor Adrian Achuthan, University of Melbourne, Brain Tumour Research
- Professor Stuart Berzins, Federation University, Immune Studies
- Professor Richard Boyd, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Immune Studies
- Dr Kim Bridle University of Queensland, Liver and Cancer Disease Studies
- Dr Stephen Brown, Director of Medical Oncology, Grampians Health Services, providing tissue samples for our projects and tissue banking.
- Dr Christopher Burns, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Ovarian Cancer Research
- Professor Darrell Crawford University of Queensland, Liver and Cancer Disease Studies
- Dr Marty Campbel, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. Collaborating with the RCH in Melbourne to receive LCH samples.
- Professor Fadi Charchar, Federation University, Collaborating on molecular gene expression of immune cells in cancer and CLL. We have published a number of publications with Professor Fadi’s group over the last few years and we continue to actively collaborate with his group.
- Associate Professor Alex Corbett, University of Melbourne, Immune Studies
- Dr Stephen Daley, Monash University, Immune Studies
- Professor Anna DeFazio, University of Sydney, Ovarian Cancer Research
- Dr Jock Findlay, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Ovarian Cancer Research
- Professor Hui Gan, Olivia Newton John Cancer Research Institute, Brain Tumour Research
- Dr Emma Gannon, Surgeon, provided tumour samples, Breast Cancer Research
- Professor Dale Godfrey, Doherty Institute, jointly collaborates on the LCH project as well as the study of NKT cells. He is a world expert in this area and has unique reagents to study CD1 cells and NKT cells.
- Associate Professor Daniel Gray, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, has expertise in the study of regulatory T cells and is collaborating on the localisation of T cells in the microenvironment. He is a co-supervisor for Dr Jason Kelly.
- Dr David Greening, LIMS Latrobe University, Ovarian Cancer Research
- Associate Professor Phillip Gregory, Centre for Cancer Biology, Adelaide, Breast Cancer Research
- Associate Professor Tom Jobling Monash Medical Centre and Epworth Hospital, Ovarian Cancer Research
- Associate Professor Paul Licciardi, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Brain Tumour Research
- Mr Andrew Lowe, Surgeon, provided samples for the Lung Cancer Research and for tissue banking.
- Professor James McCluskey, University of Melbourne, Immune Studies
- Dr Louise Ludlow, Murdoch Children’s Institute, LCH Research
- Dr Laura MacKay, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, Immune Studies
- Associate Professor Andrew Morokoff, University of Melbourne, Brain Tumour Research
- Associate Professor Mark Myers, Federation University, Ovarian and Renal Cancer Research
- Dr Daniel Pellicci, Doherty Institute, a world authority on CD1 biology, is a co-supervisor of Dr Jenee Mitchell on LCH project, as well as a collaborator on the LCH project with the aim of identifying the antigen responsible for the development of LCH.
- Professor Damian Purcell, Doherty Institute, has been involved in the identification of a new murine hepatitis virus involved with an LCH-like phenotype. Two manuscripts published including an invited editorial to the British Journal of Virology.
- Queensland Institute of Technology, Breast Cancer Research
- Dr Carmela Ricciardelli, University of Adelaide, Ovarian Cancer Research
- Professor Ravi Shukla, RMIT University, Melbourne, Breast Cancer Research
- St Vincent’s Medical Research Institute, Brain and Ovarian Cancer Research
- South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute – Proteomics Projects
- Mr Bruce Stewart Surgeon. Provided samples for Lung Cancer Research, tissue banking and the Chemosensitivity Trial
- Dr Nheim Tran RMIT University, Melbourne, Ovarian Cancer Research
- Professor Rick Thompson, University of Queensland Translational Research Institute, Breast Cancer Research
- Associate Professor Sharon Wallace, St John of God Pathology, has assisted with tumour samples for the tissue bank.
- Dr Nick Wiliamson, Bio21 Institute, Ovarian and CLL Research
- Dr Hong-Jian Zhu, University of Melbourne, Brain Cancer Research
International
- Dr Matthew Anaka University of Alberta, Breast Cancer Researcg
- Professor Jan-Inge Henter, Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, collaboration on LCH Studies. Professor Kannourakis was invited to present our LCH work at the Karolinska Institute. We have jointly published our work in PLoS as well as (Nature) Scientific Reports.
- Professor Paul Jubinsky, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, we will use our chemosensitivity testing method to test a new inhibitor of cancer cells, called Magmus Inhibitor. We hope to publish a number of publications on this new agent in collaboration with his group.
- Professor Jaraslov Sterba, Director of Paediatric Oncology, Deputy Dean of Medicine , Masaryk University, Czech Republic. Samples for LCH and Ovarian Cancer Researcg.
