Carl Power
UNSW Node Director, BRIL
Dr Carl Power is the Head of the Biological Resources Imaging Laboratory in the Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre. As head of BRIL, Dr Power has diverse interests in Preclinical imaging techniques including MRI, PET, CT, Optical Imaging and Ultrasound.
In the area of cancer biology in general and specifically prostate cancer biology, research is focused on the use of animal models to identify mechanisms of prostate cancer metastasis to bone, immune responses to prostate cancer and its bone metastases and preclinical assessment of treatments to prevent bone mets.
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