Tony Penington
Professor
Cell Biology
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Australia
Biography
plastic surgery from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1996. Following 18 months in Oxford as a clinical and research fellow he was appointed consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon at St Vincent's Hospital and the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. He obtained a Graduate Certificate in Health Statistics from Swinburne University of Technology in 2003 and MD from the University of Melbourne in 2008. From 1999 to 2012 he was Deputy Director of the O'Brien Institute and from 2009 to 2012 head of Plastic Surgery at St Vincent's Hospital. In June 2012 Professor Penington was appointed Jigsaw Professor of Paediatric Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Royal Children's Hospital, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and the University of Melbourne, funded by the Jigsaw Foundation. He is the plastic surgeon to the vascular anomalies service at The Royal Children's Hospital.
Research Interest
Cell Biology and plastic surgery
Publications
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Simcock JW, Penington AJ, Morrison WA, Thompson EW, Mitchell GM. Endothelial precursor cells home to a vascularized tissue engineering chamber by application of the angiogenic chemokine CXCL12. Tissue Engineering Part A. 2008 Dec 5;15(3):655-64.
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Phillips RJ, Penington AJ, Bekhor PS, Crock CM. Use of propranolol for treatment of infantile haemangiomas in an outpatient setting. Journal of paediatrics and child health. 2012 Oct 1;48(10):902-6.
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Lokmic Z, Mitchell GM, Chong NK, Bastiaanse J, Gerrand YW, Zeng Y, Williams ED, Penington AJ. Isolation of human lymphatic malformation endothelial cells, their in vitro characterization and in vivo survival in a mouse xenograft model. Angiogenesis. 2014 Jan 1;17(1):1-5.
