Disease-related Research

DPAG’s research portfolio has several unique features. It has internationally reputed strengths in a very broad range of disciplines, covering at least five of the Medical Sciences Division’s seven research themes, and extending from the molecular, genetic and cellular to complex systems-level biology. Four of the Research Groupings within the Department, ‘Development and Reproduction’, ‘Ion Channels, Transporters and Signalling’, ‘Functional Genomics’ and ‘Metabolism and Endocrinology’, are major cross-cutting themes. Importantly, although DPAG’s primary emphasis is on basic science, there are many links with clinical groups in areas such as diabetes, neurodegeneration, cancer and heart disease.