Dr Trevelyan Menheniott

Group Leader
Infection and Immunity
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Australia

Academician Gastroenterology
Biography

Dr Trevelyan Menheniott is a molecular biologist with 15 years experience in cancer epigenetics and immunology research. He obtained his PhD in mammalian epigenetics from the University of Bath, UK in 2004. His postdoctoral work was completed in the laboratory of Professor Rebecca Oakey, King's College London, then subsequently with Professor Andrew Giraud at the University of Melbourne. He relocated with the group to the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute in 2007. Dr Menheniott has achieved significant National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funding success as Chief Investigator since joining the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, with six grants awarded since 2009 worth $3.1 million and a recent NHMRC Career Development Fellowship which commenced in 2012. Dr Menheniott was appointed as Group Leader in 2012 and currently co-leads the Gastrointestinal Research in Inflammation & Pathology (GRIP) team with Professor Giraud and Dr Louise Judd.

Research Intrest

Gastrointestinal Research in Inflammation & Pathology

List of Publications
Howlett M, Chalinor HV, Buzzelli JN, Nguyen N, van Driel IR, Bell KM, Fox JG, Dimitriadis E, Menheniott TR, Giraud AS, Judd LM. IL-11 is a parietal cell cytokine that induces atrophic gastritis. Gut. 2012 Oct 1;61(10):1398-409.
Menheniott TR, Kurklu B, Giraud AS. Gastrokines: stomach-specific proteins with putative homeostatic and tumor suppressor roles. American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology. 2013 Jan 15;304(2):G109-21.