Head, Oncogenic Transcription Laboratory

Prof John Mariadason moved to New York to do his postdoctoral training at the Montefiore Medical Center – Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he investigated the role of Wnt signalling in colon cancer progression and the use of gene expression profiling for predicting response of colon cancer cells to chemotherapy.

He established his independent laboratory at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2001 as Assistant Professor of Medicine and was appointed Associate Professor of Medicine in 2008. He returned home to Melbourne in 2008, joining the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research as Head of the Oncogenic Transcription Laboratory.

Prof Mariadason’s research continues to be focused on the identification of new treatments for colon cancer, gastric cancer and cancers of the biliary tract.