Position
Head of the Inflammation Unit at the Heart Research Institute in Sydney.
Qualifications
• Postdoctoral Fellow (1997-2005) Heart Research Institute, Sydney working with Professor Mike Davies.
• PhD (1997) the Department of Chemistry, University of York U.K. working with Professor Mike Davies and Dr Adrian Whitwood.
Expertise
• Free radical chemistry and biology, particularly the role of radicals in disease processes.
Key Areas of Research
• Role of myeloperoxidase-derived oxidants in biological damage.
• Protein hydroperoxides and radical chain reactions in protein damage.
• Role of photo-oxidation in cellular damage and human disease.
• Determining mechanistic data for oxidation reactions in cellular systems.
• Reactions of thiocyanate-derived oxidants in atherosclerosis.
• Role of radical reactions in protein modification.
• Development of novel markers for radical damage in biological systems.
• Cellular consequences of DNA oxidation.
Selected Publications
Hawkins, CL; Pattison, DI; Stanley, NR; Davies, MJ. Biochem. J. 2008, 416, 441-452.
Morgan, PE; Pattison, DI; Hawkins CL; Davies, MJ. Free Radic. Biol. Med. 2008, 45, 1279-1289.
