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Ian Campebell
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National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Principal Research Fellow
Australia
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Biography:
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A/Prof Campbell is a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Principal Research Fellow and the focus of his research over the past 20 years has been the molecular genetics of ovarian and breast cancer. He completed his PhD in Microbiology at the University of Western Australia in 1986. From 1988-1993 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories at Lincoln’s Inn Field, London (now Cancer Research UK. From 1993-1999, A/Prof Campbell headed the cancer genetics laboratory in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Southampton, UK. During this period he developed an international reputation in somatic genetics of ovarian cancer. In 1999 A/Prof Campbell returned to Australia to head the Cancer Genetics Laboratory at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, where the broad but inter-related themes of his work continued to be the identification of genes involved in the predisposition, initiation and progression of breast and ovarian cancer. Much of A/Prof Campbell's work now involves the use of technology enabling research such as next generation sequencing.
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