Immunopathology & Immunobiology - Neuropathology - Alcohol & Schizophrenia Research - Macromolecular Structure - Cancer Studies

Laser Capture Microdissection Unit

Members of the Department are actively engaged in research projects encompassing a variety of fields relevant to Pathology. All the research programmes include supervision of undergraduate and post-graduate students within the three University Faculties served by the Department.

Dr B Bao is interested in gut immunity and inflammation.

Dr J Gibbins is utilising tissue culture cell lines and DNA transfection to study the induction and expression of the malignant phenotype in neoplastic cells. The effects of sustained inflammatory stimuli are studied in animal models.

Dr B Hambly is interested in determining the molecular structure and function of proteins, primarily the contractile proteins.

Professor C Harper's main research interests centre on the effects of alcohol on the human brain. The pathological and pharmacological changes secondary to chronic alcohol abuse are studied using quantitative morphological techniques.

Professor N Hunt is interested in biological aspects of free radicals and cytokines. His chief areas of research currently are the immunopathology of infectious disease (especially malaria), and the regulation of inflammatory responses.

Dr N King is interested in the immunobiology of the cell membrane surface. His main areas of research include the control of modulation of cell membrane architecture and cell surface molecules important in immune cell interactions.

Dr R Pamphlett studies motor neuron disease, the neurotoxicology of heavy metals, and sudden infant death syndrome using electron microscopic, biochemical and immunocytochemical techniques.