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- Cancer Biology
- Cancer Therapeutics
- Transcription
- Chromatin and Epigenetics
- Ribosome BIogenesis
- High Throughput Functional Screening
- Genomics
Professor Ross Hannan is an internationally recognised laboratory scientist, whose work on ribosome biogenesis has led to new treatment paradigms in cancer, centred on drugs that activate nucleolar stress.
He received his PhD from the University of Tasmania in 1994, before undertaking postdoctoral research in the USA.
Since returning to Australia in 2000, he has held prominent positions at the Baker Medical Research Institute and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne. Prof Hannan brought together multi-disciplinary teams of laboratory and clinician researchers, and forged industry collaborations to devise ‘first in class’ RNA polymerase I inhibitors, that are now in clinical trial for a range of heamatologic cancers.
Prof Hannan’s far-reaching contributions were recognised in his appointment as inaugural Centenary Chair in Cancer Research and Head of the ACRF Department of Cancer Biology and Therapeutics at John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU.
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