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Dr. Alex Cristino is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Environment and Science - Bioscience at Griffith University, specializing in systems biology, genetics, and epigenetics. He is affiliated with the Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery and the Institute for Biomedicine and Glycomics. His research integrates computational and experimental approaches to uncover disease-associated gene networks for precision medicine, focusing on neurological disorders and cancers.
Dr. Cristino currently supervises doctoral students in areas such as chronic CHIKV disease, synthetic virology, microRNA roles in oral cancer, and schizophrenia epigenetics. He has led or co-led multiple grants totaling over $2 million, including projects on Alzheimer’s disease models, NK cell dysfunction in Hodgkin lymphoma, and drug discovery for schizophrenia using patient-derived stem cells.
His work spans molecular mechanisms in neurodegeneration, cancer biology, and honeybee developmental genetics. Notable recent projects include circular RNA applications in neurological conditions and IRE1α/XBP1 signaling in immune cells.
Dr. Cristino’s lab contributes to drug discovery initiatives and translational research, leveraging patient-derived cell models to design novel therapies targeting dysfunctional pathways. He collaborates widely, with cross-disciplinary projects in systems biology, genomics, and clinical applications.
