Marco Herold Australasian Melanoma Conference 2018

Marco Herold

Professor Marco Herold, Laboratory Head, Blood Cells and Blood Cancer Division, WEHI. Marco Herold is a NHMRC Senior Research Fellow and Laboratory Head in the Blood Cells and Blood Cancer Division at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI), Melbourne. During his PhD and first postdoctoral studies at the University of Würzburg (Germany) he was trained in cell death research and mouse genetics. At WEHI, his research team specializes in applying functional genetic screening techniques to identify novel gene targets required for the development and sustained growth of cancer cells. Recent findings identified DNA repair as fundamental for TP53-mediated tumour suppression (Janic et al, Nature Medicine 2018). His current research employs advanced genome wide CRISPR knockout and activation library screening in vitro and in vivo to discover vulnerabilities that can be exploited for cancer therapy (Deng et al, Nature Communications 2022).