About
Nigel Waterhouse graduated with honours in Biochemistry from University College Dublin (UCD) in Ireland. He subsequently moved to Australia and completed his PhD on “Proteolytic events in Apoptosis” in the cancer unit at QIMR Berghofer and the Department of Surgery at the University of Queensland. He then moved to the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology (LIAI) in San Diego where he became interested in using flow cytometry and microscopy to unravel pathways that orchestrate cancer cell death. He continued this work back in Australia at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre to understand how immune killer cells fight cancer.
In 2009, he moved to the Mater Medical Research Institute in Brisbane where he focused on how immunotherapy can influence the outcomes of patients with prostate cancer and leukaemia. He moved to QIMR Berghofer in 2012 and set up the Australian Cancer Research Foundation Centre for Comprehensive Biomedical Imaging, where researchers have access to the latest microscopy knowledge and technologies to understand cancer and other diseases. He has published over 80 journal articles that have been cited more than 10,000 times. H index – 47; i10 index - 71.