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Disease focus areas

Eskitis research is focussed on three disease areas:

  • Cancer: we investigate the biological mechanisms associated with cancer, establishing pathways that can be manipulated to prevent this illness. We are a partner in the Cancer Therapeutics CRC (CTx)  carrying out High-Throughput Screening against cancer targets, bioactive molecule evaluation, lead optimisation and structural chemistry.
  • Neurological diseases: we combine clinical and population-based research with laboratory-based cellular and molecular techniques exploring causes of neurological diseases. We have several  focus areas, including epidemiology of Parkinson's disease,  genetics of Parkinsonism and related disorders, interactions between genetic/environmental factors and genetic epidemiology of complex traits.
  • Infectious Diseases: we are currently studying infectious diseases and the mechanisms of the body's innate immune system. Our target infectious diseases include malaria, sleeping sickness and tuberculosis. We are using Nature Bank, our unique source of chemical diversity from nature, to search for new compounds with drug potential. This research will ultimately benefit the world's poorest people. 

Research groups

Our research into these diseases is carried out by Research groups led by Institute Members who manage an independent research program. Some members are externally-supported Fellows and some are academic appointments with additional teaching responsibilities.

  • Andrews Group - tropical parasitology 
  • Avery Group - discovery biology
  • Brown Group - chemical biology
  • Carroll Group - biological chemistry
  • Crane Group
  • Coster Group - bioactive molecule synthesis
  • Davis Group - natural products chemistry
  • Hofmann Group - structural chemistry
  • Johnston Group - olfactory biology
  • Kennedy Group - cancer biology
  • Khanna Group
  • Krasavin Group - synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry
  • Lopez Group
  • Love Group
  • Mellick Group - clinical neurosciences
  • Mackay-Sim Group - adult stem cell biology
  • Poulsen Group - chemical biology
  • Quinn Group - natural product drug discovery and design
  • Stevenson Group - Cancer Therapeutics CRC (CTx)
  • St John Group - olfactory ensheathing cell biology
  • Tonissen Group - cancer biology
  • Watters Group
  • Weible Group 
  • Wood Group - stem cell biology
  • Williams Group

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