Associate Professor Colin Clyne

Associate Professor Colin Clyne is a member of the Centre for Endocrinology and Metabolism.

Associate Professor Colin Clyne is a member of the Centre for Endocrinology and Metabolism.

Biography

Associate Professor Colin Clyne graduated from Edinburgh University, UK in 1994 with a PhD in pharmacology. He then travelled to the USA, completing his postdoctoral training with Professor Bill Rainey at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre in Dallas. With a keen interest in gene expression and cancer, he joined Hudson Institute of Medical Research in 1998, where he established the Cancer Drug Discovery Laboratory to drive research into novel endocrine therapeutic targets in breast cancer.

An internationally respected research leader, he has received numerous awards, including an NHMRC Career Development Award, an International Union against Cancer Fellowship, and most recently a prestigious research grant from Worldwide Cancer Research (formerly AICR; Association for International Cancer Research). He has held editorial positions with leading research journals, including Endocrinology and the Journal of Molecular Endocrinology.

Dr Clyne’s current research interests include the pharmacology of nuclear receptors and their co-regulators, and the regulation and action of oestrogen in breast cancer.

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