Dr Zoe West

Research Fellow

UQ Centre for Clinical Research

Affiliate of Centre for Extracellular Vesicle Nanomedicine

Centre for Extracellular Vesicle Nanomedicine

z.west@uq.edu.au

Researcher biography

Dr Zoe West is a Research Fellow at The University of Queensland's Frazer Institute, within the Queensland Centre for Gynaecological Cancer. She specialises in vulvar cancer, with a central aim to reduce surgical intervention and improve outcomes and quality of life for women affected by the disease. Her research integrates advanced three-dimensional imaging with multi-omics approaches to uncover the biological drivers of vulvar cancer metastasis and identify early predictors of tumour spread.

Publications

Journal Articles (9)

Conference Paper (1)

Journal Articles

Baxter, Eva, Nair, Soumyalekshmi, West, Zoe, Salomon, Carlos and Obermair, Andreas (2025). Extracellular vesicles as biomarkers for endometrial cancer – a systematic review. Translational Oncology, 62 102543, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.tranon.2025.102543

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, 101956-7. doi: 10.1016/j.ijgc.2025.101956

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