Professor Ian M. Morison

BMedSc, MBChB, PhD, FRCPA (Haem)

• NRCGD Project Leader

• Professor and Head of Department of Pathology, University of Otago

Research interests

Professor Ian Morison has an active research programme in epigenetics. It includes several projects designed to determine the effect of the environment on epigenetic programming during development. These include the epigenetic effects of in vitro fertilisation, epigenetics of the placenta, and the effects of nutrients on adult methylation. In addition he maintains the Catalogue of Parent of Origin Effects, a comprehensive online database of imprinted genes. Developmental epigenetics must have mechanisms in common with epigenetics of cancer, an area in which Ian has many years of experience with epigenetics especially for childhood leukaemia and Wilms tumours.

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Biography

A graduate of Otago Medical School, Professor Ian Morison undertook residency training in Clinical Pathology at the University of Washington. Subsequently, in Dunedin he gained his fellowship in Pathology [FRCPA(Haem)]. His PhD was in imprinting in developmental disorders and in blood development. From 1996-2008 he was a Senior Research Fellow in the Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, and in 2009 was appointed Professor of Pathology.

Contact details

Department of Pathology

Dunedin School of Medicine

University of Otago

PO Box 913

Dunedin 9054

Email ; Phone +64 3 4797170