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- A new regulator of 'stemness' to create dendritic cell factories for immunotherapy
- Advanced imaging interrogation of pathogen induced NETosis
- Can the 3D genome predict type 1 diabetes onset?
- Cancer driver deserts
- Choosing antibody type: B cells as a model system for cellular calculation and signal induced fate control
- Cryo-electron microscopy of Wnt signalling complexes
- Deciphering the heterogeneity of breast cancer at the epigenetic and genetic levels
- Developing drugs to block malaria transmission
- Developing new computational tools for CRISPR genomics to advance cancer research
- Developing novel antibody-based methods for regulating apoptotic cell death
- Development of tau-specific therapeutic and diagnostic antibodies
- Discovering novel paradigms to cure viral and bacterial infections
- Discovery and targeting of novel regulators of transcription
- Dissecting host cell invasion by the diarrhoeal pathogen Cryptosporidium
- Do membrane forces govern assembly of the deadly apoptotic pore?
- Doublecortin-like kinases, drug targets in cancer and neurological disorders
- E3 ubiquitin ligases in neurodegeneration, autoinflammation and cancer
- Engineering improved CAR-T cell therapies
- Epigenetic biomarkers of tuberculosis infection
- Exploiting cell death pathways in regulatory T cells for cancer immunotherapy
- Finding treatments for chromatin disorders of intellectual disability
- Functional epigenomics in human B cells
- Genomic rearrangement detection with third generation sequencing technology
- How does DNA damage shape disease susceptibility over a lifetime?
- How does DNA hypermutation shape the development of solid tumours?
- How lymphocytes are stopped - a novel mechanism to prevent lymphoma
- How platelets prevent neonatal stroke
- Human lung protective immunity to tuberculosis
- Interaction with Toxoplasma parasites and the brain
- Interactions between tumour cells and their microenvironment in non-small cell lung cancer
- Investigating the role of dysregulated Tom40 in neurodegeneration
- Investigating the role of mutant p53 in cancer
- Leukaemia is caused by mutations in DNA. This project will explore how 3D DNA structure influences when and where these DNA mutations occur. There is an opportunity for a dedicated and enthusiastic student to join our team and reveal how 3D genome organis
- Lupus: proteasome inhibitors and inflammation
- Machine learning methods for somatic genome rearrangement detection
- Malaria: going bananas for sex
- Measurements of malaria parasite and erythrocyte membrane interactions using cutting-edge microscopy
- Measuring susceptibility of cancer cells to BH3-mimetics
- Minimising rheumatic adverse events of checkpoint inhibitor cancer therapy
- Mutational signatures of structural variation
- Naturally acquired immune response to malaria parasites
- Predicting the effect of non-coding structural variants in cancer
- Revealing the epigenetic origins of immune disease
- Reversing antimalarial resistance in human malaria parasites
- Structural and functional analysis of DNA repair complexes
- Targeting human infective coronaviruses using alpaca antibodies
- The cellular and molecular calculation of life and death in lymphocyte regulation
- Towards targeting altered glial biology in high-grade brain cancers
- Uncovering the real impact of persistent malaria infections
- Understanding Plasmodium falciparum invasion of red blood cells
- Understanding how malaria parasites sabotage acquisition of immunity
- Understanding malaria infection dynamics
- Understanding the mechanism of type I cytokine receptor activation
- Unveiling the heterogeneity of small cell lung cancer
- Using alpaca antibodies to understand malaria invasion and transmission
- Using combination immunotherapy to tackle heterogeneous brain tumours
- Using intravital microscopy for immunotherapy against brain tumours
- Using nanobodies to cross the blood brain barrier for drug delivery
- Using structural biology to understand programmed cell death
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Grant Dewson-Achievements
Researcher:
Selected achievements
Awards
2011 Future Fellowship, Australian Research Council
2011 QEII Postdoctoral Fellowship, Australian Research Council (declined)
2006 Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Award
Grants and funding
2017-2019 Harry Secomb Foundation award
2015-2017 Project Grant, National Health and Medical Research Council
2014-2016 Project Grant, National Health and Medical Research Council
2014 Association for International Cancer Research UK
2012 Project Grant, ANZ Hugh Williamson Foundation
Service to the community
Head, International Student Program in Research Experience (InSPIRE)
Editorial Board, Cell Death and Disease
Editorial Board, Scientific Reports
Editorial Board, Journal of Proteomics and Genomics
Faculty Member, Faculty of 1000
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