Dr. Maree C Faux obtained her doctorate from the University of Melbourne in 1994. She is a biochemist and cancer cell biologist, a Senior Research Officer in the Neuro-oncology Group at Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI), and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Departments of Surgery and Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne. Her research aims to understand the biology and biochemical signalling pathways important in normal cell function and the molecular changes that contribute to cancer. Maree’s work has included the discovery of scaffolding complexes that anchor protein kinases and phosphatases to specific subcellular locations and an understanding of how the truncation of APC in colon tumours affects fundamental cellular processes. She is currently coordinating the developmental biology and cancer research activities in the Neuro-oncology Group. Her research aims to discover new transcriptional regulatory mechanisms and characterise these at the molecular and genomic level in normal development and in childhood cancer.