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Role Team Leader / Senior Research Officer
Research area Genomic Medicine

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Available for student supervision
Dr Peter Houweling is a Team leader and senior research officer in the Muscle Research group at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI). He completed his PhD at the University of Sydney and post-doctoral appointments at the Children’s Hospital Westmead, before moving the MCRI in 2013.

He has almost 15 years of experience in the laboratory where he is working to understand the impact of genetic variants on skeletal muscle performance in health and disease.

His Team now focuses on using stem cells to model and test new treatments for patients with genetic muscle diseases, including Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) and other congenital muscular dystrophies.
Dr Peter Houweling is a Team leader and senior research officer in the Muscle Research group at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI). He completed his PhD at the University of Sydney and post-doctoral appointments at the Children’s...
Dr Peter Houweling is a Team leader and senior research officer in the Muscle Research group at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI). He completed his PhD at the University of Sydney and post-doctoral appointments at the Children’s Hospital Westmead, before moving the MCRI in 2013.

He has almost 15 years of experience in the laboratory where he is working to understand the impact of genetic variants on skeletal muscle performance in health and disease.

His Team now focuses on using stem cells to model and test new treatments for patients with genetic muscle diseases, including Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) and other congenital muscular dystrophies.

Top Publications

  • Houweling, PJ. The antioxidants neopterin/7,8‐dihydroneopterin: Novel biomarker and muscle protectant in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Experimental Physiology 103(7) : 939 -940 2018
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  • Kiriaev, L, Kueh, S, Morley, JW, North, KN, Houweling, PJ, Head, SI. Branched fibers from old fast-twitch dystrophic muscles are the sites of terminal damage in muscular dystrophy. American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology 314(6) : c662 -c674 2018
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  • Garton, FC, Houweling, PJ, Vukcevic, D, Meehan, LR, Lee, FXZ, Lek, M, Roeszler, KN, Hogarth, MW, Tiong, CF, Zannino, D, et al. The Effect of ACTN3 Gene Doping on Skeletal Muscle Performance. American Journal of Human Genetics 102(5) : 845 -857 2018
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  • Houweling, PJ, Berman, YD, Turner, N, Quinlan, KGR, Seto, JT, Yang, N, Lek, M, Macarthur, DG, Cooney, G, North, KN. Exploring the relationship between α-actinin-3 deficiency and obesity in mice and humans. International Journal of Obesity 41(7) : 1154 -1157 2017
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  • Levinger, I, Yan, X, Bishop, D, Houweling, PJ, Papadimitriou, I, Munson, F, Byrnes, E, Vicari, D, Brennan-Speranza, TC, Eynon, N. The influence of α-actinin-3 deficiency on bone remodelling markers in young men. Bone 98: 26 -30 2017
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