Dr Hoanh Tran earned his BSc (Hons) from the University of Melbourne and a PhD in Cell Biology from the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Switzerland studying mRNA stability. He conducted postdoctoral research at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in the UK and Genentech in the USA, where he studied how the ubiquitin system controls the functions of the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) protein in Wnt signalling and cytoskeleton organization. He is now using knowledge from the discovery of new ubiquitin-APC biology to further research into the mechanisms of polarized cell growth and tissue morphogenesis in human health and disease.
