Rate My Professor Danielle Dye

Dr Danielle Dye serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Curtin School of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Sciences within the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University. She is also affiliated with Curtin Medical School and the Curtin Medical Research Institute. Dye earned her PhD in cell biology from the University of Western Australia between 2000 and 2007, and a Bachelor of Science with Honours from Curtin University. She holds expertise in teaching human biology, histology, biotechnology, and research methods, contributing to innovative educational tools such as the implementation of Anatomage tables in large first-year core units. With over two decades in health and medical research, Dye has built a career focused on advancing understanding in biomedical sciences. She supervises higher degree by research students, including PhD candidates like Jessica Titchener, who achieved notable success under her guidance alongside Associate Professor Giuseppe Verdile, and Alicia Tan in projects at the Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute. Her supervisory excellence earned her a commendation for the Adrian Paxman Research Supervisor Award from the Faculty of Health Sciences.

Dye's research centers on cancer biology and rare diseases. Key projects investigate the role of melanoma cell adhesion molecule (MCAM) in melanoma, melanoma cell interactions with the extracellular matrix, and melanoma cell migration. She explores small extracellular vesicles in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and immunological mechanisms, including inflammation mediated by macrophages in muscle repair following injury in the elderly, in collaboration with researchers like Professor Deirdre Coombe, Dr Connie Jackaman, Dr Hannah Crabb, and Professor Miranda Grounds. Her scholarly output includes 59 publications cited over 2400 times, with an h-index reflecting significant impact. Notable works encompass her editorial contribution to Principles of Anatomy and Physiology, Australasian Edition; 'Use of Anatomage tables in a large first year core unit' (2013, 38 citations); 'CD8+ cytotoxic T cell responses to dominant tumor-associated antigens are less prevalent in elderly tumor-bearing mice' (2019, 17 citations); 'Small extracellular vesicles in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma' (2023, 15 citations); 'Keratinocyte self-renewal and differentiation is dictated by fibroblast-derived dermal extracellular vesicles' (2025); and 'Defective gating of the Sec61 translocon results in misfolded CFTR' (2025). Dye maintains an active presence through her Google Scholar profile listing cancer biology and rare diseases as primary interests.