David Gallego-ortega
Tumour Development
Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Australia
Biography
David completed his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2008 at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), the largest research organization in Spain. After one year as Postdoctoral Scientist at Translational Cancer Drugs Pharma, a biotechnology company focused in oncology; he joined Professor Ormandy’s lab at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in 2009 to work in mouse models of mammary gland development and breast cancer. David has held a National Breast Cancer and Cure Cancer Australia Foundation Fellowship (2012 - 2015) and he currently holds a Cancer Institute New South Wales Career Development Fellowship (2017-2019).
Research Interest
Single-cell transcriptomics Mammary gland development Mammary gland hierarchy / Stem and progenitor cells / Cell fate specification/ Linage tracing Breast cancer Basal breast cancer / Endocrine therapy resistance Animal models of breast cancer Tumour progression / Mechanisms of metastasis Immunobiology of breast cancer
