Associate Professor Thomas Grewal
Diplom (Honours), PhD, PD (Habilitation)
Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Research Theme Leader, Cardiovascular and Diabetes
A15 - Pharmacy And Bank Building
The University of Sydney
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Biographical details
After completing his PhD on gene regulation in Germany in 1993, Associate Professor Thomas Grewal studied lipoprotein receptors during postdoctoral fellowships at the Heart Research Institute (HRI, Sydney) and the Clinical Research Institute (Montreal, Canada). From 1997-2003, Thomas Grewal led a research group at the University Hospital Eppendorf (Hamburg, Germany) and later (2003-2007) at the Centre for Immunology (CFI, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney). Thomas Grewal joined the Faculty of Pharmacy in October 2007. His research examines the link between membrane transport and cell signalling, which regulates spatiotemporal signalling in health and disease. Utilising a multi-disciplinal approach involving biochemistry, molecular cell biology, and state-of-the-art microscopy, he has developed an expertise in scaffolding proteins and cellular cholesterol transport, which coordinates the localisation/activity of signaling complexes and receptors.
Overall he has published 57 manuscripts with more than 1,000 citations, including articles in leading journals (J Biol Chem, Oncogene, Traffic, Mol Biol Cell, Arterio Thromb Vasc Biol, J Cell Sci). He received invitations to present at national/international meetings and seminars, reviews manuscripts and research grants for journals and national/international granting bodies. Collaborations with leading national/international scientists include C Enrich (Barcelona, Spain), J Heeren (Hamburg, Germany) RJ Daly, P Timpson (Garvan), KA Rye, K Gaus (UNSW). Since being in Australia, he received funding from NHMRC, NHF and Cure Cancer Australia.
Research interests
- Regulation of EGFR/Ras signalling and trafficking.
- Ras signaling and stimulation of cholesterol efflux in atherosclerosis.
- Role of Annexin A6 in cholesterol export from late endosomes and caveolae/lipid raft formation.
Teaching and supervision
Associate Professor Thomas Grewal is currently supervising three PhD and one honours student and is Associate Supervisor of three PhD students. Overall he has supervised 17 MD, 10 Honours, four PhD, four postdoctoral scientists and co-supervised 14 PhD and four honours students. He gives lectures and tutorials focusing on drugs targeting signalling molecules and lipids in cardiovascular disease and cancer. He coordinates lectures/tutorial for fourth year Pharmacy students (BPharm), and as postgraduate coordinator (2010-2011), was involved in student consultation, development of under-/postgraduate student programs and student assessments.
Selected grants
2013
- Cardiovascular benefits of PCSK9 inhibition; Grewal (, Barter P; National Health and Medical Research Council/Project Grants.
- Robotic High Throughput Western Analysis for the Open Access, Multi-User Sydney Cancer Research Core Facility; Richardson D, Scolyer R, Boyer M, Halliday G, Damian D, Christopherson R, Joshua D, Kench J, Hong A, Murray M, Lee C, Kalinowski D, Naylor M, Lay P, Lyons J, Kovacevic Z, Mason R, Dixon K, Chan-Ling T, Hawkins C, Sunde M, Lovejoy D, Owens T, Rendina L, Jansson J, dos Remedios C, Charles (nee Slaviero) K, Lane D, Witting P, Dong Q, Ammit A, Groundwater P, Assinder S, Bao S, Byrne S, Zhou F, Buckland M, Grewal (, Huq F, Lai D, Codd R, Zhang D, Fu D, de Graaf S, Huang M, Payne R, Slobedman B, Barrs V, Ho P, Williamson P, Murphy C; DVC Research/Equipment Grant.
2011
- Annexin A6 - a scaffold to switch off EGF receptor; Grewal (; DVC Research/Bridging Support Grant.
- Fluorescence microscopy with optical tweezers: imaging cellular responses; Weninger W, Gunning P, Grau G, King N, Grewal (, Soon L; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF).
2010
- A 5-D Correlative Imaging Platform: Combining the Strengths of Light and Electron Microscopy; Braet F, Soon L, Overall R, Day D, Waterhouse P, Marc J, Conigrave A, Weiss A, Newsome T, Meikle S, Goetz J, Goldsbury C, Hambley T, Ramzan I, Young P, Traini D, Grewal (, Fleming S, Murphy C, Grau G, Weninger W, dos Remedios C, Wimmer-Kleikamp S, Stevens-Kalceff M; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF).
- Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy; Gaus K, Gandevia S, King N, Allen D, Vadas M, Ammit A, Grewal (, Jolliffe K; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF).
2008
- Regulation of EGF receptor signaling; Grewal (; NHMRC/Project Grant.
- Ras signalling and cholesterol efflux from late endosomes; Grewal (; NHMRC/Project Grant.
2007
- Ras signalling and cholesterol efflux from late endosomes; Grewal (; Heart Foundation of Australia/Grants-in-Aid.
Selected publications
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