Research Group Head
Hudson Institute of Medical Research
Clayton, Victoria, Australia
A/Prof Jason Cain is head of the Developmental and Cancer Biology research group in the Centre of Cancer Research at the Hudson Institute of Medical Research. He is the inaugural My Room Children’s Cancer Charity Research Fellow and leads the My Room Children’s Cancer Chairty Laboratory and Childhood and Adolescent Sarcoma Research Program. A/Prof Cain’s research focus is to understand the mechanisms underpinning the development and progression of childhood and adolescent solid tumours to identify novel therapeutic strategies to improve patient outcomes.
After completing his BSc (2000), BSc(Hons) (2001) and PhD (2006) in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Monash University, A/Prof Cain undertook his post-doctoral training at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada with Dr Norman Rosenblum in the Program of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology. Here, he focused on the role of the Hedgehog signalling pathway in development and disease, developing valuable and specialized skills in developmental biology, mouse models of human disease, and congenital and pediatric diseases. In 2010, he returned to Australia as a Research Fellow with Prof Neil Watkins at the Monash Institute for Medical Research, now the Hudson Institute. Here, A/Prof Cain developed his current research program in childhood and adolescent cancer focusing on sarcomas, combining a unique skill set of developmental and cancer biology expertise, techniques and concepts.
In 2023, A/Prof Cain was appointed Deputy Director of the Centre for Cancer research at the Hudson Institute, and as a Director of the Australia and New Zealand Sarcoma Association.
Thursday, November 13, 2025
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM EST
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