Dr Dane Vassiliadis is a Senior Associate Investigator in the laboratory of Professor Mark Dawson at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. His research investigates the role that epigenetic factors play in gene expression control and how aberrant regulation of these processes can drive the initiation, maintenance, and progression of cancer.

Dr Vassiliadis completed his undergraduate and postgraduate training at The University of Melbourne where he developed an interest in cell and molecular biology, bioinformatics, functional genomics, and immuno-oncology. His current research program seeks to understand how therapeutic resistance develops in haematological and solid malignancies. In particular, he is interested in how transcriptional pathways are aberrantly regulated in malignant cells and how this can initiate and maintain stable therapeutic resistance in the absence of new mutations to DNA.

His work is supported by the Leukaemia and Lymphoma Society USA, the Gilead Sciences International Research Scholars program, and the NHMRC Ideas grant scheme.

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