Vincent Kuek
Senior Research Officer
BSc(Hons), PhD
vincent.kuek@thekids.org.au
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincent-kuek/Vincent Kuek is a passionate childhood leukaemia researcher at The Kids Research Institute Australia. He completed his PhD study in the area of skeletal biology at the School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Western Australia (UWA), where he investigated the role of bone-derived proteins that control healthy skeletal development and bone diseases.
Following the completion of his PhD, he continued working on industry-funded projects at UWA where he evaluated novel therapeutics in osteoporosis and osteoarthritis.
He is currently a post-doctoral research officer within the Leukaemia Translation Research laboratory at The Kids Research Institute Australia and a visiting collaborative researcher at the School of Biomedical Sciences, UWA. His research interests include using mouse models to understand how the environment of leukaemia cells influence disease development, and assess new treatment strategies for children with leukaemia.