Plenary Session 2
Tuesday, 14 October 2008 09:00 - 10:30, Auditorium
| Chair | Dianne Tucker | Laboratory Services, The Royal Women's Hospital and The Royal Children's Hospital |
Insights into the Biology of Acute Leukaemia from High Resolution Genomic Approaches
Dr Charles Mullighan received his medical degree from the Univeristy of Adelaide in 1993. He studied immunogenetics in the University of Oxford, then trained in Haematology and Haematopathology at the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide. Since 2004 he has been a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Dr James Downing at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee. His research interest is the genomic analysis of acute leukemia (Nature 2007;446:758 and Nature 2008: in press). He is funded by a NH&MRC (Australia) CJ Martin Fellowship, a St Jude Physician Scientist Fellowship, and is the recipient of American Society of Hematology Merit and Scholar awards. |
What Telomeres Reveal About Our Blood
Dr Ngaire Elwood is the Director of the BMDI Cord Blood Bank at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne and also heads a Leukaemia / Stem Cell research group at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She has a long-standing interest in the area of haemopoietic stem cells, leukaemia and telomere biology. |