Paul Ekert
Professor
Cancer
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Australia
Biography
Associate Professor Paul Ekert is a qualified paediatrician and researcher who has worked as a specialist at The Royal Children's Hospital Neonatal Unit for 14 years. He has also worked at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, both as a postdoctoral scientist and as a laboratory head. Associate Professor Ekert's associations with the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and the Royal Children's Hospital go back many years to his days as a paediatric trainee at the hospital, and his first position as a research laboratory head in the Children's Cancer Centre.
Research Interest
programmed cell death (or apoptosis),oncogenes and translocations
Publications
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Sandow JJ, Jabbour AM, Condina MR, Daunt CP, Stomski FC, Green BD, Riffkin CD, Hoffmann P, Guthridge MA, Silke J, Lopez AF. Cytokine receptor signaling activates an IKK-dependent phosphorylation of PUMA to prevent cell death. Cell death and differentiation. 2012 Apr;19(4):633.
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Hahn CN, Chong CE, Carmichael CL, Wilkins EJ, Brautigan PJ, Li XC, Babic M, Lin M, Carmagnac A, Lee YK, Kok CH. Heritable GATA2 mutations associated with familial myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukemia. Nature genetics. 2011 Oct 1;43(10):1012-7.
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Jabbour AM, Daunt CP, Green BD, Vogel S, Gordon L, Lee RS, Silke N, Pearson RB, Vandenberg CJ, Kelly PN, Nutt SL. Myeloid progenitor cells lacking p53 exhibit delayed up-regulation of Puma and prolonged survival after cytokine deprivation. Blood. 2010 Jan 14;115(2):344-52.
