Dr Nigel McMillan    Principal Research Fellow

	Biography

Dr McMillan's interests are centred around the human papillomavirus (HPV) and RNA interference (RNAi). For HPV we are interested in its role in other cancers and have, for example, found HPV on normal skin and in breast and prostate tumours. These findings suggest a potential role for HPV in other cancers and have implications for future therapies, including vaccine-based treatments. The lab also works on RNAi-based therapies for cancers and use cancers caused by HPV as a model system.

Dr McMillan completed his PhD in molecular virology in 1991 at the University of Otago, New Zealand before undertaking postdoctoral studies at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada and the Cleveland Clinic, USA in the laboratory of Dr Bryan Williams. He set up the Molecular Virology Laboratory in 1995. The laboratory studies the role that viruses play in cancer formation and the use of gene silencing technology as a cancer therapy.

	Keywords
	Medical: Cancer Biology, Science and Technology: Viral Studies (Virology)