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Monash University

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Professor Peter Currie is a world-renowned developmental evolutionary and stem cell biologist at Monash University in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. Serving as Director of Research and Group Leader at the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI) since 2016, he investigates the genetic basis of skeletal muscle stem cell action during development, evolution, regeneration, and disease. His research employs zebrafish and shark models to dissect molecular mechanisms patterning the vertebrate embryo, determine specific muscle cell types, explore their evolution, and understand muscle growth and regeneration following injury. Currie utilizes large-scale mutagenesis of the zebrafish genome to generate mutations disrupting gene function, advancing zebrafish as a key model for human muscle disease and regeneration biology. He has also pioneered shark embryology as a paradigm for evolutionary origins of the vertebrate body plan. As an NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, his work underscores muscle development and disease.