Peter Gunning

Professor Peter Gunning is the Head of the School of Medical Sciences at the University of New South Wales, and the co-inventor of Kazia Therapeutics’s anti-tropomyosin technology, which includes Anisina (ATM-3507).

He completed his PhD at Monash University on gene expression in the nervous system, and then spent nine years at Stanford University, working first on neuronal differentiation and then on the regulation of muscle gene expression. Since returning to Australia, his research group has focused on studying the architecture of cells and tissues.

Professor Gunning’s research has been principally concerned with diseases of childhood, primarily cancer and muscle damage. He is best known for his discovery of one of the key principles underlying the architecture of all cells and its application to childhood cancer. Professor Gunning has built a twenty-year partnership with the Not-For-Profit organisation, The Kids Cancer Project, to drive novel research into childhood cancers, and this was reported on the ABC’s Australian Story program in March 2014.

Professor Gunning has published over 200 research papers and recently edited the book Tropomyosin. He is on the Board of the NSW Cancer Institute and served as the Chair of the NSW Cancer Institute Cancer Research Advisory Committee for six years. He was also the inaugural Chair of the Division of Research at The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, and the Founding Chair of Bio-Link Pty Ltd.