Applied Clinical and Therapies Staff

Dr. David Maguire

 
  BSc, (UQ) MSc, PhD (James Cook) Current Appointment; Senior Lecturer – School of Bopmolecular and Biomedical Science I joined GU in 1983 and have been largely responsible for the direction of the Undergraduate course and the Coursework Postgraduate Master’s Programme in Clinical Biochemistry since then. I have experienced interesting and rewarding periods of research leave in UM, Ann Arbor (Michigan), University of Colorado, Denver (Colorado), University of Virginia, Charlottesville (Virginia) and Trinity College, Dublin, (Ireland). Recently appointed a ‘Brisbane Convention Ambassador’ by Brisbane’s Lord Mayor, Tim Quinn. I am President-elect of the International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissues (Isott). Research Interests; My research covers the broad area of clinical biochemistry but increasingly focusses on both of the human genomes (the nuclear and the mitochondrial one). My postgraduate research students work on aspects of these genomes as they apply to Skin Cancer and Cervical Cancer as well as genetic disorders in which there is occasionally apparent lack of correlation between the genome and phenomic expression. In this latter category, a current focus of interest, in conjunction with specialists at Mater Hospital, is on Persistent Hyperglycemic Hyper-insulinism of Infants (PHHI).