Stephen M. Jane

Professor Stephen M. Jane completed his medical degree at Monash University in 1981. He entered the physician training program at the Alfred Hospital, completing clinical/laboratory haematology degrees and a PhD at Monash University under Professor Hatem Salem in 1990. He then spent five years in the United States of America, the first three as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, and the remainder on the faculty at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. He returned to Australia in 1995 as a Wellcome Senior Research Fellow to the University of Melbourne at the Bone Marrow Research Laboratories in the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He became Director of the laboratories in 2000, a Principal Research Fellow of the NHMRC in 2005 and a Professor of Medicine at University of Melbourne in 2006. He was appointed as the Head of Central Clinical School, Professor of Medicine, Monash University and Director of Research Alfred Hospital in 2011. He also is a member of the Clinical Hematology Department. His research interests focus on developmental transcriptional regulators using blood as skin as the model organ systems. He has published over 100 papers including articles in Science, Nature Medicine, Developmental Cell and Cancer Cell.