Rob Weinkove

Biography

W​ade Thompson Clinical Research Fellow and Clinical Director of the Clinical Human Immunology Laboratory, Malaghan Institute and Consultant Haematologist Capital & Coast. D​r Robert Weinkove is a Consultant Haematologist at Wellington Blood & Cancer Centre and Clinical Director of the Clinical Human Immunology Laboratory at the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research in Wellington. He studied medicine at the University of Cambridge and at King's College London before undertaking post­graduate medical training at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals in London and the Medizinische Hochschule Hannover in Germany. He completed haematology specialist training in London in 2011. Dr Weinkove's doctoral research at the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research and the University of Otago examined invariant natural killer T cells in patients with leukaemia. His research interests include the use of innate­like T cells in cancer immunotherapy and his clinical interests include indolent lymphoproliferative disorders and supportive care in haemato­oncology. Dr Weinkove sits on the Scientific Advisory Committees of the Australasian Leukaemia & Lymphoma Group and Leukaemia & Blood Cancer New Zealand. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and of the Royal College of Pathologists of London.

Research Interest

 Cancer