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Research areas

The projects under way in the department's 16 research groups draw on biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology and biophysics as they apply to areas including human diseases, plants and microorganisms.

Research leader	Area of research interest
Associate Professor Heung-Chin Cheng	Enzymology & signalling mechanism of oncogenic and tumour suppressor enzymes
Associate Professor Marie Bogoyevitch	Signal transduction in health and diseases, including heart disease, stroke and cancer
Dr Armadeep Dhillon	Cell signalling in cancer
Professor Paul Gleeson	Membrane trafficking, autoimmunity & cell biology of acid-secreting epithelia
Associate Professor Paul Gooley	NMR spectroscopy for investigation of protein structure & function
Dr Danny Hatters	Aberrant protein conformations, toxicity and disease
Dr Andy Hill	Prion diseases, Alzheimer's disease & Parkinson's disease
Associate Professor Geoff Howlett	Amyloid fibril formation and protein misfolding diseases
Professor Trevor Lithgow	Protein targeting to cellular compartments
Associate Professor Bruce Livett	Ion channel toxins as therapeutic drug leads
Professor Malcolm McConville	Molecular microbiology
Dr Terry Mulhern	Signal transduction & human diseases
Dr Matt Perugini	Proteomics & interactomes, isoforms of human apolipoprotein E
Dr Tony Purcell	Molecular events leading to an immune response
Dr Stuart Ralph	Drug targets and gene regulation in Plasmodium falciparum
Associate Professor Ian van Driel	Cell biology, growth & development, autoimmune diseases and their genetic causes

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