David Martino
David is Theme Leader for the Chronic Disease Theme and heads up the Clinical Epigenetics group at The Kids Research Institute Australia.
His research interests include the epigenetic regulators of gene control that influence child development and disease risk.
David completed his PhD at the University of Western Australia in transcriptomics of food allergy with Prof Susan Prescott and Prof Patrick Holt. and undertook postdoctoral studies in epigenetic of food allergy with Prof Richard Saffery and Prof. Katie Allen at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. As the previous recipient of two NHMRC fellowships, he led foundational genome and epigenome-wide association studies in allergic disease and then established the Clinical Epigenetics team at Telethon Kids in 2018.
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