Dr Paul J Verma

Senior Research Fellow & Senior Scientist, Centre for Reproduction & Development

Dr Paul Verma has worked on biotechnology in a number of species including mammals and fish. He obtained his PhD at Adelaide University and subsequently joined BresaGen Ltd, Adelaide in 1995, working on transgenesis and nuclear transfer aimed at developing pigs with organs suitable for xenotransplantation. He later joined the Luminis-BresaGen Cell Therapy Program, where he established a research program on cell reprogramming aimed at providing alternates to therapeutic cloning. 

Dr Verma moved to Melbourne in 2001 and is continuing his research into reprogramming somatic cells, isolation and characterization of embryonic and adult stem cells as a Senior Research Fellow at MIMR.

He has published many scientific papers and edited a book on transgenesis, cloning and stem cells. He is principal inventor on eight granted and provisional patents in the field of cell reprogramming and stem cells.

He has recently been appointed to serve on the NHMRC Cellular Therapies Advisory Committee and is a Visiting Professor at the National Centre for Biological Science, Bangalore, India.