
ABOUT ME
Anderly graduated from the University of Melbourne on Dean’s Honours List, with a Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Science in 2002. In the last year of undergraduate study, while he undertook research training at the Royal Children's Hospital. He completed an Honours degree in Biomedical Science with the top academic mark within the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Melbourne. During his studies, he was awarded an Australian Commonwealth PhD scholarship, as well as undergraduate scholarships from the Human Genetics Society of Australasia and the Cancer Society of Victoria.
Within 7 years, not only been professionally trained at several world-class medical research institutes and reputable tertiary hospitals in Victoria, he also completed a Doctorate in Human Genetics within the Faulty of Medicine at the University of Melbourne. Prior to joining the drug development team at The Walter and Eliza Institute of Medical Research, Anderly worked at the Austin Hospital for his postdoctoral training in tumor biology within the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (Melbourne Centre for Clinical Sciences) on site. He is currently an Honorary Research Fellow in the academic unit of the Department of Medicine of the hospital.
Anderly’s professional training was directly provided by world-renowned scientists, including the famous chromosome biologist Professor KH Andy Choo FAA, apoptosis pioneer and BCL-2 discoverer Professor David L. Vaux FAA, prolific cancer biochemist and GM-CSF purifier Professor Antony W. Burgess AC FAA FTSE, translational colorectal cancer biologist Professor John M. Mariadason, haematologist and drug discovery expert Professor David CS Huang and anti-cancer medicinal chemist Associate Professor Guillaume Lessene.
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Anderly has published 20 high quality peer-reviewed research articles in leading international journals including PLOS Genetics, American Journal of Human Genetics, Human Molecular Genetics, Cancer Research, Clinical Cancer Research, Oncogene, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and Journal of Biological Chemistry. These research articles have a total citation of 596 and an h-index of 10.
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EDUCATION
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Chromosome Biology
Human Neocentromeres and Centrochromatin
2004 - 2008
The University of Melbourne
Ph.D in Human Genetics​
Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine
Epigenetic Enzymes
Histone Methyltransferases and Demethylases
Mitotic Signaling
Nuclear Lamins and Mitotic Entry
Developmental Cancer Therapeutics
Epigenetic and Mitotic Inhibitors
2003
The University of Melbourne
B. Biomedical Science (Honours)
Molecular Biology of Human Development and Disease Program
2000 - 2002
The University of Melbourne
B. Biomedical Science
Majored in Biochemistry and Genetics