Merlin Crossley

Merlin Crossley is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic Quality) at UNSW and Professor of Molecular Biology. He has also worked or studied at the Universities of Melbourne, Oxford, Harvard and Sydney. He has been recognized by numerous awards, including a Rhodes Scholarship and the Australian Academy of Science's Gottschalk Medal. He has made significant contributions to academic administration, serving as Dean at UNSW since 2010, and previously having been Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research at the University of Sydney from 2006 to 2008. Genetics and molecular biology, CRISPR gene editing, Epigenetics, Human genetic disease, Gene therapy, Fundamental mechanisms of gene regulation, Artificial DNA-binding proteins, Blood development, Haemophilia, Sickle cell anaemia and thalassaemia, Gene therapy via CRISPR gene editing