Derek Delaney
BSc (Hons)
Research Officer
HEARING THERAPEUTICS
I am a problem solver and medical research has no shortage of challenges to overcome to improve human health.
Derek Delaney is a Research Officer in the Hearing Therapeutics department at the Ear Science Institute Australia.
Derek has joined after finishing a PhD at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research (through the University of Western Australia) in targeted drug delivery to aggressive types of cancer.
Derek brings experience in preclinical development of targeted drugs and biomedical molecular imaging to Ear Science Institute Australia, where he aims to assist Dr Elaine Wong and Associate Professor Hani Al-Salami in developing targeted drugs and investigating mechanisms that could potentially restore hearing.
Areas of research
- Discovery through to translation
- Wound healing and tissue repair
- Drug discovery
Top publications
Yen Ling Yeow, Venkata Ramana Kotamraju, Xiao Wang, Meenu Chopra, Nasibah Azme, Jiansha Wu, Tobias D Schoep, Derek S Delaney, Kirk Feindel, Ji Li, Kelsey M Kennedy, Wes M Allen, Brendan F Kennedy, Irma Larma, David D Sampson, Lisa M Mahakian, Brett Z Fite, Hua Zhang, Tomas Friman, Aman P Mann, Farah A Aziz, M Priyanthi Kumarasinghe, Mikael Johansson, Hooi C Ee, George Yeoh, Lingjun Mou, Katherine W Ferrara, Hector Billiran, Ruth Ganss, Erkki Ruoslahti, Juliana Hamzah. Immune-mediated ECM depletion improves tumour perfusion and payload delivery. EMBO Mol Med (2019) 11: e10923. https://doi.org/10.15252/emmm.201910923
Robert C Tuckey, Edith KY Tang, Stephanie R Maresse, Derek S Delaney. Catalytic properties of 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 3-epimerase in rat and human liver microsomes. Arch Biochem Biophys (2019) 666: 16-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.abb.2019.03.010
