Understanding and targeting aberrant metabolism in acute myeloid leukemia

Dr Lev Kats is a group leader within the Cancer Biology and Therapeutics Program at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. He was awarded his PhD in 2009 from Monash University and completed his post-doctoral training at Beth Israel Deaconess Centre/Harvard Medical School. Dr Kats is interested in epigenetic regulation of haematopoiesis and leukaemia and his laboratory uses mouse models to understand how specific genes contribute to leukaemia initiation and maintenance.