Professor Kieran Harvey holds dual appointments at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (Peter Mac) and Monash University. At Peter Mac, he leads the Organogenesis and Cancer Program and at Monash he runs a laboratory in the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology.

Kieran’s team studies organ size control during development, using Drosophila, and how signalling pathways that control organ size are deregulated in human cancer. In particular his group focuses on the Hippo pathway, which he helped to discover in Professor Iswar Hariharan’s laboratory in the early 2000’s.

Kieran performed Doctoral studies with Professor Sharad Kumar in Australia (University of Adelaide), and postdoctoral studies with Professor Iswar Hariharan in the USA (Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical Center and University of California, Berkeley). In 2006, Kieran established an independent laboratory at Peter Mac. He holds an NHMRC Investigator grant and was awarded the Gottschalk Medal by the Australian Academy of Science in 2014, for outstanding research in the medical sciences.