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Peter Hersey

Peter Hersey

Oncology, Immunology and Microbiology
Wollstonecraft, New South Wales, Australia

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Professor Peter Hersey is a graduate of the University of Adelaide where he completed his clinical training as a physician. He completed his scientific training in the University of Oxford as a Nuffield Dominion Fellow in tumour Immunology. He has held positions as a Staff Specialist in Immunology in Sydney Hospital and the Calvary Mater hospital in Newcastle where he also held the positions of research director at the Newcastle melanoma unit and Conjoint professor of Oncology in the University of Newcastle. In 2010 he was appointed to the inaugural chair of Melanoma Biology in the University of Sydney and there has established a translational research laboratory working on melanoma in the Kolling Medical Research Institute based in the Royal North Shore Hospital. He continues his melanoma clinic in the Melanoma Institute of Australia and at the Lake Macquarie Private hospital in Newcastle.

Dr. Richard has several publications to his credit like ‘INDUCIBLE BUT NOT CONSTITUTIVE EXPRESSION OF PD-L1 IN HUMAN MELANOMA CELLS IS DEPENDENT ON ACTIVATION OF NF-?B.’ and 'EZH2: AN EMERGING ROLE IN MELANOMA BIOLOGY AND STRATEGIES FOR TARGETED THERAPY'
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