Faculty Research

Our scientists perform high-quality, collaborative research to advance scientific discoveries in cancer biology, vascular biology, neurobiology, stem cells, maternal and fetal health, aging, infection, and development. Our outstanding research environment serves as an excellent training milieu for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as post-doctoral researchers.

See below to explore our research by i) Research Areas or ii) Alphabetical List of Faculty and Their Research.

i) Research Areas

ii) Alphabetical List of Faculty and Their Research

Tallulah Andrews
   - analysis of single-cell and spatial transcriptomics data
Stephanie Bishop
-metabolomics in bacterial infections, bacterial resistance, and microbial communities
Michael Boffa
  - proteolysis in fibrinolysis and cancer
James Choy
   - intrinsically disordered proteins
Gabriel DiMattia
   - growth factor signalling in ovarian cancer
Martin Duennwald
   - protein misfolding and quality control in neurodegenerative diseases
Vanessa Dumeaux
   - immune response, gut microbiome, bioinformatics
David Edgell
   - mobile genetic elements
Christopher Garnham
   - management of agricultural crop pests
Teklab Gebregiworgis
   - small GTPases; NMR metabolomics in disease
Gregory Gloor
   - protein coevolution
Mike Hallett
   -
single-cell profiling technologies; computational models for cellular causal and correlative relationships; breast-cancer informatics
Victor Han
   - fetal, placental, newborn growth/development
Robert Hegele
   - genetic basis of specific human diseases
Ilka Heinemann
   - RNA turnover and polymerases
Pingzhao Hu
   - Health data science, bioinformatics, statistical genetics


Robert Hudson
   - bioorganic chemistry of nucleic acids & peptides
Murray Junop
   - DNA repair
Bogumil Karas
   - synthetic biology, designer microbes, DNA replacement strategies
Lars Konermann
   - protein folding, dynamics, function; biocomputing
Marlys Koschinsky 
   -
Lipoprotein(a) structure and regulation
Shawn Li
   - structure, function, connectivity of cellular proteins
Hong Ling
   - DNA damage response and regulation 
David Litchfield
   - signalling events in cell proliferation and survival
Kun Ping Lu
   - Pin1 in cancer, neurodegeneration, and sepsis
Patrick O'Donoghue
   - genetic code evolution and engineering
Geoffrey Pickering
   - smooth muscle cells in vascular disease 
Anthony Rupar
   - therapies for metachromatic leukodystrophy
Caroline Schild-Poulter
   - cellular response to DNA damage
Gary Shaw
   - calcium signalling proteins; protein degradation
Brian Shilton
   - enzyme structure, mechanism, biological function 
Eva Turley
   - signalling paths of cell motility and tumour invasion
Ken Yeung
   - tissue imaging by mass spectrometry