NZ Cancer Drug Discovery Research

NZ Researchers Who Specialise in Cancer Drug Discovery under the following disciplines:

Medicinal Chemistry and Immunotherapy

Medicinal Chemistry Research Teams

Dr Maria Abbattista,

Dr Amir Ashoorzadeh,

Dist Professor Bruce Baguley,

Associate Professor David Barker,

Dist Professor Margaret Brimble,

Dr Darby Brooke,

Professor Penelope Brothers,

Professor Lai-Ming Ching,

Emeritus Professor George Clark,

Professor Brent Copp,

Dist Professor Bill Denny,

Dr Benjamin Dickson,

Dr Daniel Furkert,

Dr Yongchuan Gu,

Dr Chris Guise,

Professor Christian Hartinger,

Associate Professor Michael Hay,

Dr Kevin Hicks,

Dr Lydia Liew,

Professor Gavin Painter,

Associate Professor Adam Patterson,

Dr Frederick Pruijn,

Dr Johannes Reynisson,

Dr Viji Sarojini,

Dr Jeff Smaill,

Dr Julie Spicer,

Dr Moana Tercel,

Professor Bill Wilson,

Free Radical Research Teams

Associate Professor Bob Anderson,

Professor Mark Hampton,

Dr Paul Pace,

Dr Martina Paumann-Page,

Professor Bridget Robinson,

Professor Christine Winterbourn,

Redox activated nanoparticles: Dr Greg Giles,

Redox regulation of thiol signalling pathways: Dr Greg Giles,

Mathematics, Statistics, Informatics, Computational Modelling

Associate Professor Mik Black,

Professor Cris Print,

Computational modelling and design: Associate Professor Joel Tyndall,

Pharmacology and Sensitization

Professor Mike Berridge,

Professor Debbie Hay,

Associate Professor Patries Herst,

Dr Melanie McConnell,

Dr Jeong Park,

Professor Paul Teesdale-Spittle (pre-2005),

Fibrosarcoma sensitization: Dr Sarah Baird

Targeting Cancer Energetics and Metabolism

Professor Mike Berridge,

Dr David Eccles,

Dr Melanie McConnell,

Dr Swee Tan,

Immunotherapies and Vaccines

Dist Professor Margaret Brimble,

Professor Rod Dunbar,

Dr Olivier Gasser,

Professor Ian Hermans,

Dr Katrin Kramer,

Dr Kunyu Li,

Dr Silke Neumann,

Professor Gavin Painter,

Professor Sarah Young, 

Vaccine delivery systems: Professor Sarah Hook

Chimeric Antigen Receptor T cells (CAR-T cells) and NK cells targeting solid tumours: Associate Professor Alexander McLellan

Fighting the cytokine storm: Associate Professor Alexander McLellan

Improving tumour T-cell infiltration: Associate Professor Alexander McLellan

Drug Delivery

Dist Professor Bruce Baguley,

Professor Mike Eccles,

Associate Professor Vyacheslav Filichev,

Nanoparticles for vaccine delivery: Professor Sarah Hook

Nanoparticles in colorectal cancer: Associate Professor Rosyln Kemp

Nanomicelles in prostate cancer: Professor Rhonda Rosengren

Hypoxia-responsive drug delivery systems: Dr Greg Giles 

Molecular Biology in Drug Development

Tumour microenvironment

Dist Professor Bruce Baguley,

Professor Lai-Ming Ching,

Dr Xiaolin (Steven) Cui,

Associate Professor Margaret Currie,

Dr Benjamin Dickson,

Dr Jack Flanagan,

Dr Lydia Liew,

Associate Professor Gordon Rewcastle,

Dr Swee Tan,

Targeting of tumour microenvironment: Associate Professor Alexander McLellan

Mesenchymal stem cells in tumour micro-environment: Dr Sarah Baird 

Redox molecules and signalling

Dr Abel Ang,

Dr Stephanie Bozonet,

Associate Professor Anitra Carr,

Associate Professor Gabi Dachs,

Dr Andrew Das,

Professor Mark Hampton,

Professor Bridget Robinson,

Professor Margreet Vissers,

Oligonucleotide conjugates and nano/oligo formulations:

Dr Greg Walker,

Signal transduction proteins and pathways

Dr Jack Flanagan,

Professor Debbie Hay,

Associate Professor Gordon Rewcastle,

Professor Peter Shepherd,

Dr Julie Spicer,

Associate Professor Christopher Squire,

Cell death proteins and pathways

Professor Catherine Day, 

Dr Liz Ledgerwood, 

Dr Peter Mace

Drug resistance pathways

Non-small cell lung cancer: Associate Professor John Ashton

Targeting drug resistance: Professor Rhonda Rosengren

Targeting invasion and metastasis

In fibrosarcoma: Dr Sarah Baird 

Synthetic lethal screens and targeting

Dr Augustine Chen, 

Professor Parry Guilford,

CRISPR targeting

Dr Francis Hunter

Immune response

Professor Lai-Ming Ching,

Professor Rod Dunbar,

Associate Professor Nuala Helsby,

Pharmacogenomics

Associate Professor Nuala Helsby,

Professor Martin Kennedy,

Bioinformatics and clinical genomics

Associate Professor Mik Black,

Dr David Eccles,

Dr Purvi Kakadiya,

Professor Cris Print,