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David Herrmann

Dr David Herrmann

Role
Group Leader
Lab/Group
Timpson Lab

Dr David Herrmann completed his Diploma and PhD studies in the field of Developmental Biology in Freiburg, Germany. Due to the strong similarities between embryonic development and cancerogenesis he became interested in joining Dr Paul Timpson’s research group to work on invasion and metastasis, moving to Sydney to join the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in 2012.

Awards

  • 2016Young Garvan Finalist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DPuo5aphU0
  • 2010Traveling grant from the CDB Riken Center - Japan to attend the meeting “Frontiers in Organogenesis” - Kobe
  • 2009Member of the GRK1104 “From Cells to Organs: Molecular Mechanisms of Organogenesis”
  • 2008Alumni-Diploma Award - University of Freiburg - Faculty of Biology

Selected publications

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  • 2026
    Nature Communications10.1038/s41467-026-69398-w

    Cancer cell-intrinsic inflammasome protein ASC links innate immunity with mitochondrial metabolism in driving pancreatic cancer.

    Yu C J Chey, Bassam Kashgari, Louise McLeod, Georgette A Radford, Linden J Gearing, Ruby E Dawson, Malvika Kharbanda, Joanne Lundy, Daniel Croagh, Charlotte Girard-Guyonvarc'h, Cem Gabay, Brooke A Pereira, David Herrmann, Paul Timpson, John W Finnie, Mohamed I Saad, Dharmesh D Bhuva, Bernardo S Franklin, Florian I Schmidt, Brendan J Jenkins
  • 2025
    Cell Reports10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115691

    ER stress disrupts insulin release in murine models of type 2 diabetes by impairing retromer action and constitutive secretion.

    Nancy Sue, Le May Thai, Ebru Boslem, Kwan Yi Chu, Chenxu Yan, Leanne Mackin, William E Hughes, Angela Fontaine-Titley, Deborah Barkauskas, Louise Cottle, Helen E Thomas, Carsten Schmitz-Peiffer, Yan-Chuan Shi, Paul Timpson, David Herrmann, Martin Whitham, Trevor J Biden
  • 2025
    Science Advances10.1126/sciadv.adq4416

    Targeting the NPY/NPY1R signaling axis in mutant p53-dependent pancreatic cancer impairs metastasis.

    Cecilia R Chambers, Supitchaya Watakul, Peter Schofield, Anna E Howell, Jessie Zhu, Alice M H Tran, Nadia Kuepper, Daniel A Reed, Kendelle J Murphy, Lily M Channon, Brooke A Pereira, Victoria M Tyma, Victoria Lee, Michael Trpceski, Jake Henry, Pauline Melenec, Lea Abdulkhalek, Max Nobis, Xanthe L Metcalf, Shona Ritchie, Antonia Cadell, Janett Stoehr, Astrid Magenau, Diego Chacon-Fajardo, Jessica L Chitty, Savannah O'Connell, Anaiis Zaratzian, Michael Tayao, Andrew Da Silva, Ruth J Lyons, Leonard D Goldstein, Ashleigh Dale, Alexander Rookyard, Angela Connolly, Ben Crossett, Yen T H Tran, Peter Kaltzis, Claire Vennin, Marija Dinevska, , , David R Croucher, Jaswinder Samra, Anubhav Mittal, Robert J Weatheritt, Andrew Philp, Gonzalo Del Monte-Nieto, Lei Zhang, Ronaldo F Enriquez, Thomas R Cox, Yan-Chuan C Shi, Mark Pinese, Nicola Waddell, Hao-Wen Sim, Tatyana Chtanova, Yingxiao Wang, Anthony M Joshua, Lorraine Chantrill, Thomas R Jeffry Evans, Anthony J Gill, Jennifer P Morton, Marina Pajic, Daniel Christ, Herbert Herzog, Paul Timpson, David Herrmann
  • 2024
    European Journal of Immunology10.1002/eji.202451215

    Bystander Expression of Atypical Chemokine Receptor 2 Protects T Cells from Chemoattraction towards Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts.

    Richard Tang, Szun S Tay, George Sharbeen, David Herrmann, Janet Youkhana, Paul Timpson, Phoebe A Phillips, Maté Biro
  • 2024
    Science Advances10.1126/sciadv.adl1197

    Temporally resolved proteomics identifies nidogen-2 as a cotarget in pancreatic cancer that modulates fibrosis and therapy response.

    Brooke A Pereira, Shona Ritchie, Cecilia R Chambers, Katie A Gordon, Astrid Magenau, Kendelle J Murphy, Max Nobis, Victoria M Tyma, Ying Fei Liew, Morghan C Lucas, Marjan M Naeini, Deborah S Barkauskas, Diego Chacon-Fajardo, Anna E Howell, Amelia L Parker, Sean C Warren, Daniel A Reed, Victoria Lee, Xanthe L Metcalf, Young Kyung Lee, Luke P O'Regan, Jessie Zhu, Michael Trpceski, Angela R M Fontaine, Janett Stoehr, Romain Rouet, Xufeng Lin, Jessica L Chitty, Sean Porazinski, Sunny Z Wu, Elysse C Filipe, Antonia L Cadell, Holly Holliday, Jessica Yang, Michael Papanicolaou, Ruth J Lyons, Anaiis Zaratzian, Michael Tayao, Andrew Da Silva, Claire Vennin, Julia Yin, Alysha B Dew, Paul J McMillan, Leonard D Goldstein, Ira W Deveson, David R Croucher, Michael S Samuel, Hao-Wen Sim, Marcel Batten, Lorraine Chantrill, Sean M Grimmond, Anthony J Gill, Jaswinder Samra, Thomas R Jeffry Evans, Takako Sasaki, Tri G Phan, Alexander Swarbrick, Owen J Sansom, Jennifer P Morton, , , Marina Pajic, Benjamin L Parker, David Herrmann, Thomas R Cox, Paul Timpson
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