Bill Panagopoulos
Medicine
University of Adelaide
Australia
Biography
My career spans more than ten years of research experience within private and academic sectors focusing on cancer cell biology and tissue growth and repair. I am very passionate about cancer research and strive to identify new therapeutic strategies to combat metastatic disease. My primary research interest lies within the role of stromal cells within the tumour microenvironment on cancer growth and metastasis. This interest developed early on in my career but wasn't until my PhD (completed in 2016) where I became fascinated with targeting the stroma with novel therapeutic strategies as a treatment for breast cancer. My PhD identified for the first time a causative role for peroxidase enzymes in cancer development and metastasis. This discovery has resulted in 3 first author publications, a patent application, and collaboration with a pharmaceutical company assessing novel peroxidase inhibitors as a potential therapeutic agents in the treatment/prevention of breast cancer.
Research Interest
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