Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience

The Quinn Lab - Drosophila models for cancer

Dr Leonie Quinn - Profile

Dr Leonie Quinn

Academic background

1993 - Bachelor of Science, University of Adelaide
1994 - First Class Honours, Flinders University
1998 - Ph.D, Flinders University.


Awards and Scholarships

1994- 1997 –Australian Postgraduate Award (A.P.A.)
2004-2010 – NHMRC Career Development Award
2005 - NHMRC Early-Career Researchers Award


Grant support

Current support

2011-2013       NHMRC project grant, APP10044791. CIA Leonie Quinn "Drosophila models for regulation of Myc transcription" CIB Assoc. Prof. Ross Hannan (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre), CIC Prof David Levens (National Institutes of Heath, Centre for Cancer Research).

2010-2012       NHMRC project grant, ID# 628414. CIA - Leonie Quinn. CIB Prof. Laura Johnston, Columbia University, CIC Dr Gary Hime, ACB. The Drosophila homologue of the c-Myc oncoprotein; regulation and roles in controlling stem cell behaviour in the germline.


Past support

2005-2010       NHMRC Career Development Award, RD Wright research fellowship.

2008                Cancer Council Victoria, grant in aid. CIA – Quinn. "The steroid hormone, Ecdysone, affects Wg/Wnt signaling to promote cell proliferation via the zinc finger factor, Crol".      

2006-2008       NHMRC project grant, ID# 400114. CIA - Ross Hannan, CIB - Leonie Quinn. Regulation of ribosomal RNA gene transcription.

2005-2007       NHMRC New Investigator Grant ID#350267. CIA - Leonie Quinn. Hfp activates proteolysis of positive cell cycle regulators.

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