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Professor Gonda’s major research interest is in identifying and characterising oncogenes involved in major human cancers – particularly leukaemia and breast cancer. His work has a particular focus on the MYB oncogene, which is a key player in normal haemopoiesis and leukaemia. He has also been extensively involved in work on cytokines and their receptors. Professor Tom Gonda carried out postdoctoral research from 1979-81 at the University of California, San Francisco in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Professor J Michael Bishop. This position started Professor Gonda’s continuing interest in leukaemia and the myb oncogene. He returned to Australia in 1982 as a Research Fellow at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Melbourne, where he expanded his research to include retroviral vectors, cytokines and leukaemia. He returned to Adelaide in 1990 as an NHMRC Research Fellow at the Hanson Centre for Cancer Research. In 2001 he tried his hand at biotechnology as Chief Scientist, Bionomics Ltd, Adelaide, where he directed the company’s research and development programs. In 2003 he returned to academia in his current position at the Diamantina Institute. He has been a member of ARC and NHMRC grant review panels and involved in the organisation of a number of scientific conferences.
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