Dr Zoe West
Research Fellow
UQ Centre for Clinical Research
Affiliate of Centre for Extracellular Vesicle Nanomedicine
Centre for Extracellular Vesicle Nanomedicine
Researcher biography
Dr. Zoe West, a Research Fellow at the Queensland Centre for Gynaecological Cancer within UQ's Centre for Clinical Research, specialising in vulvar cancer. Her primary objective is to minimise surgical interventions and enhance patient outcomes. Dr. West employs state-of-the-art three-dimensional imaging in her research to gain deeper insights into the intricacies of vulvar cancer.
Journal Articles
Davie, S., Obermair, A. and West, Ze (2025). Patterns of Care for Vulval Cancer Treatment: The Queensland Experience. International Journal of Gynecological Cancer, 35 (7) 101956, 101956. doi: 10.1016/j.ijgc.2025.101956
Kanatani, Shigeaki, Kreutzmann, Judith C., Li, Yue, West, Zoe, Larsen, Lea Lydolph, Nikou, Danai Vougesi, Eidhof, Ilse, Walton, Abigail, Zhang, Songbai, Rodríguez-Kirby, Leslie Rubio, Skytte, Jacob Lercke, Salinas, Casper Gravesen, Takamatsu, Kimiharu, Li, Xiaofei, Tanaka, Daisuke H., Kaczynska, Dagmara, Fukumoto, Keishiro, Karamzadeh, Razieh, Xiang, Yujiao, Uesaka, Naofumi, Tanabe, Tsutomu, Adner, Mikael, Hartman, Johan, Miyakawa, Ayako, Sundström, Erik, Castelo-Branco, Gonçalo, Roostalu, Urmas, Hecksher-Sørensen, Jacob and Uhlén, Per (2024). Whole-brain spatial transcriptional analysis at cellular resolution. Science, 386 (6724), 907-915. doi: 10.1126/science.adn9947
Fukumoto, Keishiro, Kanatani, Shigeaki, Jaremko, Georg, West, Zoe, Li, Yue, Takamatsu, Kimiharu, Al Rayyes, Ibrahim, Mikami, Shuji, Niwa, Naoya, Axelsson, Tomas Andri, Tanaka, Nobuyuki, Oya, Mototsugu, Miyakawa, Ayako, Brehmer, Marianne and Uhlén, Per (2024). Three-dimensional imaging of upper tract urothelial carcinoma improves diagnostic yield and accuracy. JCI Insight, 9 (14) e175751. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.175751
Smedler, Erik, Louhivuori, Lauri, Romanov, Roman A., Masini, Débora, Dehnisch Ellström, Ivar, Wang, Chungliang, Caramia, Martino, West, Zoe, Zhang, Songbai, Rebellato, Paola, Malmersjö, Seth, Brusini, Irene, Kanatani, Shigeaki, Fisone, Gilberto, Harkany, Tibor and Uhlén, Per (2022). Disrupted
Cacna1c
gene expression perturbs spontaneous Ca
2+
activity causing abnormal brain development and increased anxiety. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (7) e2108768119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2108768119
West, Zoe Elizabeth, Aitcheson, Savannah Margaret, Semmler, Annalese Barbara Trudy and Murray, Rachael Zoe (2021). The trans-SNARE complex VAMP4/Stx6/Stx7/Vti1b is a key regulator of Golgi to late endosome MT1-MMP transport in macrophages. Traffic, 22 (11), 368-376. doi: 10.1111/tra.12813
Murray, Rachael Zoe, West, Zoe Elizabeth, Cowin, Allison June and Farrugia, Brooke Louise (2019). Development and use of biomaterials as wound healing therapies. Burns & Trauma, 7, 1-9. doi: 10.1186/s41038-018-0139-7
Röhl, Joan, West, Zoe E., Rudolph, Maren, Zaharia, Andreea, Van Lonkhuyzen, Derek, Hickey, Danica K., Semmler, Annalese B. T. and Murray, Rachael Z. (2019). Invasion by activated macrophages requires delivery of nascent membrane-type-1 matrix metalloproteinase through late endosomes/lysosomes to the cell surface. Traffic, 20 (9) tra.12675, 661-673. doi: 10.1111/tra.12675
Hesketh, Mark, Sahin, Katherine B., West, Zoe E. and Murray, Rachael Z. (2017). Macrophage phenotypes regulate scar formation and chronic wound healing. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 18 (7) 1545, 1-10. doi: 10.3390/ijms18071545
Conference Paper
Obermair, Andreas, West, Zoe, Baxter, Eva, Condous, George, Hacker, Neville, Lord, Sally, Mccarthy, Sandie, Janda, Monika, Tuffaha, Haitham, Hayes, Sandi, Disipio, Tracey, Mellon, Anne, Gebski, Val, Mcnally, Orla and Martin, Andrew (2024). EV430/#358 Benefit-harm trade-off for groin node dissection versus groin ultrasound monitoring to reduce the risk of surgery-related morbidity in vulvar cancer – a decision-tree analysis. IGCS 2024 Annual Meeting, Dublin, Ireland, 16-18 October 2024. London, United Kingdom: BMJ Group. doi: 10.1136/ijgc-2024-igcs.551