Professor Robert Baxter

Professor and Director, Kolling Institute of Medical Research
Medicine, Northern Clinical School
Kolling Institute of Medical Research

E25 - Royal North Shore Hospital
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

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Themes

Cancer; Obesity, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease

Current national competitive grants*

2010

Protein discovery for breast cancer diagnosis
Baxter R, Moore K, Marsh D, Boyle F, McCarthy N
NHMRC Project Grant ($397,125 over 3 years)

2009

How IGFBP-3 improves cancer cell responsiveness to DNA-damaging therapies
Baxter R
ARC Discovery Project ($480,000 over 3 years)

2007

Breast Cancer Tissue Bank
Clarke C, Baxter R, Bilous M, Boyages J, Carpenter J, Forbes J, Friedlander M, Harnett P, Kefford R, Marsh D, Morey A, Scott R, Spigelman A, Sutherland R, Balleine R
National Breast Cancer Foundation Project Grants ($1,455,090 over 5 years)

Novel regulators of fat cell differentiation
Twigg S, McLennan S, Baxter R
NHMRC Project Grant ($428,250 over 3 years)

Proteomic screening for apoptotic markers in cancer
Baxter R, Leong S, Christopherson R
NHMRC Project Grant ($511,500 over 3 years)

Proteolysis of binding protein complexes regulates IGF bioavailability
Firth S, Baxter R
ARC Discovery Projects ($234,000 over 3 years)

* Grants administered through the University of Sydney

Research project opportunities

Ovarian cancer – understanding molecular events in advanced disease
The role of IGFBP-3-regulated genes
Studies in Cellular and Diagnostic Proteomics   +
IGF binding protein-3 and obesity: How does IGFBP-3 prevent the differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells into adipocytes?

+ indicates the opportunity is full and unavailable.

Keywords

Biochemistry; Cell biology; Proteomics; Cancer; Endocrinology