If you are interested in a student project or volunteering for laboratory experience, please contact the Laboratory Head you would like to work with. With new facilities, the latest technology and many opportunities for formal and informal collaboration it is an exciting time to study at the Perkins. We have entered a new era with our two new research centres at Nedlands and Murdoch. The building at Nedlands, the main headquarters of the Perkins, is located at the QEII Medical Centre.
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LABORATORY EXPERIENCE
PROJECT OPPORTUNITIES
See below the projects opportunities offered in 2018/2019.
Cancer and cell biology
Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory
- Development of a novel strategy using engineered peptides to selectively sensitise metastatic breast cancers to chemotherapy agents
- Engineering the cancer epigenome and targeting metastatic behaviour using CRISPR/Cas9
- Discovery and characterisation of new oncogenic drivers in breast cancer
Cell Signalling Laboratory
- signalling networks in the regulation of red blood cell
- Control of bone cancer cell migration and invasion by the scaffold protein AFAP1L1
Laboratory for Cancer Medicine
- Understanding the role of mirR-7 replacement therapy in liver cancer and to identify its potential in overcoming therapeutic resistance
- Assessing the role of thyroid receptor beta in breast cancer
- Reprograming metastatic tumours: Exploring the roles of ZNF family transcription factors
- Investigating the therapeutic potential of ciclopirox olamine for treatment of prostate cancer (or metastatic melanoma)
Systems Biology and Genomics Laboratory
- Enhancer elements in human disease
- Single cell transcriptomics
- Multicellularity and disease
- ZENBU Genome browser – data visualisation, statistics, peer-to-peer, cloud, integration
- General call – Systems Biology, genomics, transcriptomics and bioinformatics
Targeted Drug Delivery, Imaging and Therapy Laboratory
- Designing targeted nanoparticle delivery for diagnostic imaging of cancers
- Developing recombinant proteins for tumour-specific delivery
Vascular Biology and Stromal Targeting Laboratory
- Analysing the “Blood-Tumour”-Barrier
Clinical science
Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory
- Development of a novel strategy using engineered peptides to selectively sensitise metastatic breast cancers to chemotherapy agents
- Engineering the cancer epigenome and targeting metastatic behaviour using CRISPR/Cas9
- Discovery and characterisation of new oncogenic drivers in breast cancer
Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory
- Development of a novel strategy using engineered peptides to selectively sensitise metastatic breast cancers to chemotherapy agents
- Engineering the cancer epigenome and targeting metastatic behaviour using CRISPR/Cas9
- Discovery and characterisation of new oncogenic drivers in breast cancer
Molecular medicine
Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory
- Development of a novel strategy using engineered peptides to selectively sensitise metastatic breast cancers to chemotherapy agents
- Engineering the cancer epigenome and targeting metastatic behaviour using CRISPR/Cas9
- Discovery and characterisation of new oncogenic drivers in breast cancer
Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory
- Development of a novel strategy using engineered peptides to selectively sensitise metastatic breast cancers to chemotherapy agents
- Engineering the cancer epigenome and targeting metastatic behaviour using CRISPR/Cas9
- Discovery and characterisation of new oncogenic drivers in breast cancer
Student
scholarships
The Perkins offers a number of prestigious scholarships to support high achieving students wanting to further their career in medical research.
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