Mike Eccles
Board of Trustees
New Zealand Organisation for Rare Disorders
New Zealand
Biography
With a background in biochemistry and genetics, Dr Mike Eccles has been the NZ Institute for Cancer Research Trust Professor in Cancer Pathology at the University of Otago since 2006. He was a Fogarty International Scholar at Princeton University’s Department of Molecular Biology (1987 – 1989), and a James Cook Research Fellow in the Biochemistry and Pathology Departments at the University of Otago (2000 – 2002). His laboratory, which presently consisting of three research fellows, two research assistants, and four post-graduate students, is focused on the genetics and epigenetics of cancer and kidney diseases in childhood. Outside work, his time is mostly occupied with family; his wife works as a general practitioner, and they have three teen-age children. Mike is a founding trustee of NZORD.
Research Interest
Rare diseases treatment, orphan drugs, rare diseases
