Current Research
Currently the work of the Institute is centered on:
- cancers such as leukaemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, breast cancer and ovarian cancer;
- inflammatory or autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, coeliac disease, multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis; and
- infectious diseases such as malaria, HIV and hepatitis B and C.
The institute is organised into the following 13 divisions:
- Bioinformatics (headed by Professor Terry Speed)
- Cancer and Haematology (Professor Nick Nicola)
- Cell Signalling and Cell Death (Professor David Vaux)
- Chemical Biology (Professor David Huang)
- Immunology (Professor Phil Hodgkin)
- Infection and Immunity (Professor Alan Cowman)
- Inflammation (Professor Ian Wicks)
- Molecular Genetics of Cancer (jointly headed by Professors Jerry Adams and Andreas Strasser)
- Molecular Immunology (Professor Stephen Nutt)
- Molecular Medicine (Professor Doug Hilton)
- Stem Cells and Cancer (jointly headed by Professors Geoff Lindeman and Jane Visvader)
- Structural Biology (Professor Peter Colman)
- Systems Biology and Personalised Medicine (Professor Liam O'Connor).
The institute is one of five research centres to establish the ACRF Centre for Therapeutic Target Discovery - an Australian-first collaborative and comprehensive cancer research centre. The new consortium is funded by a $5 million grant awarded in 2006 by the Australian Cancer Research Foundation. The award is in honour of Australian businessman Sir Peter Abeles AC.
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