Dr Robert Ellis
BSc, BHlthSc(Hons), MMed, MD, PhD, CHIA
Research Fellow
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Projects
About me
Dr Ellis completed his MD/PhD in 2019 at the University of Queensland. His thesis investigated kidney function following nephrectomy for the management of kidney cancer. His current work includes both clinical and pre-clinical research across various areas related to kidney health and disease, including work on kidney cancer, chronic kidney disease, and transplantation. He is currently based at the Translational Research Institute and Princess Alexandra Hospital.
Publications
Raghubar AM, Matigian NA, Crawford J, Francis L, Ellis R, Healy HG, Kassianos AJ, Ng MSY, Roberts MJ, Wood S, Mallett AJ. High risk clear cell renal cell carcinoma microenvironments contain protumour immunophenotypes lacking specific immune checkpoints. NPJ Precis Oncol. 2023;7(1):88.
Urquhart AJ, Del Vecchio SJ, Lukas D, Ellis RJ, Humpries TLR, Ng KL, Samaratunga H, Galloway GJ, Gobe GC, Wood ST, Mountford CE. Isovalerylglycine and α-ketobutyrate are novel biomarkers that discriminate clear cell renal cell carcinoma in biopsy specimens using two-dimensional magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Adv Biomarker Sci Tech. 2023;5:68-75.
Kuhnel L, Vu T, Wood ST, Francis RS, Trnka P, Ellis RJ. Relationship between cortical and medullary thickness and glomerular filtration rate among living kidney donors. Int Med J. 2023;53(3):431-435.
Ellis RJ, Moffatt CRM, Aaron LT, Beaverson G, Chaw K, Curtis C, Freeman-Lamb R, Judd D, Khatry K, Li YS, Nash T, Macfarlane B, Slater K, Soonarane Y, Stickley M, Anuradha S. Factors associated with hospitalisations and deaths of residential aged care residents with COVID-19 during the Omicron (BA.1) wave in Queensland. Med J Aust. 2023;218(4):174-179.
Del Vecchio SJ, Urquhart AJ, Dong X, Ellis RJ, Ng KL, Samaratunga H, Gustafson S, Galloway GJ, Gobe GC, Wood ST, Mountford C. Two-dimensional correlated spectroscopy distinguishes clear cell renal cell carcinoma from other kidney neoplasms and non-cancer kidney. Transl Androl Urol. 2022;11(7):929-942.
Ellis RJ, Cameron A, Gobe GC, Diwan V, Healy HG, Lee J, Tan KS, Venuthurupalli S, Zhang J, Hoy WE. Kidney failure, CKD progression and mortality after nephrectomy. Int Urol Nephrol. 2022;54(9):2239-2245.
Kalla S, Ellis RJ, Campbell SB, Doucet B, Isbel N, Tie B, Jegatheesan D. Thrombotic microangiopathy associated with pazopanib in a kidney transplant recipient. J Kidney Cancer VHL. 2021;8(1):25-31.
Kuhnel L, Hawley CM, Johnson DW, Gobe GC, Ellis RJ, Francis RS. Allograft failure in kidney transplant recipients who developed kidney failure secondary to ANCA-associated vasculitis. Clin Transplant. 2021;35(4):e14235.
Owens E, Tan KS, Ellis R, Del Vecchio S, Humphries T, Lennan E, Vesey D, Healy H, Hoy W, Gobe G. Development of a biomarker panel to distinguish risk of progressive chronic kidney disease. Biomedicines. 2020;8(12):606.
Ellis RJ. Editor's welcome. Aust Med Student J. 2020;10(1):2.
Forbes MK, Owens EP, Wood ST, Gobe GC, Ellis RJ. Variability in surgical management of kidney cancer between urban and rural hospitals in Queensland, Australia: a population-based analysis. Transl Androl Urol. 2020;9(3):1210-1221.
Ellis RJ, Del Vecchio SJ, Gallagher KMJ, Aliano DN, Barber N, Bolton DM, Chew ETS, Coombes JS, Coory MD, Davis ID, Donaldson JF, Francis RS, Giles GG, Gobe GC, Hawley CM, Johnson DW, Laird A, Leung S, Malki M, Marco DJT, McNeill AS, Neale RE, Ng KL, Phipps S, Stewart GD, White VM, Wood ST, Jordan SJ. A simple clinical tool for stratifying risk of clinically significant CKD after nephrectomy: development and multinational validation. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2020;31(5):1107-1117.
Chan S, Marshall MR, Ellis RJ, Ranganathan D, Hawley CM, Johnson DW, Wolley MJ. Haemodialysis withdrawal in Australia and New Zealand: a binational registry study. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2020;35(4):669-676.
Ellis RJ, Cho Y, Del Vecchio SJ, McStea M, Morais C, Coombes JS, Wood ST, Gobe GC, Francis RS. Outcome measures used to report kidney function in studies investigating surgical management of kidney tumours: a systematic review. Eur Urol Focus. 2019;5(6):1074-1084.
Ellis RJ, White VM, Bolton DM, Coory MD, Davis ID, Francis RS, Giles GG, Gobe GC, Neale RE, Wood ST, Jordan SJ. Tumor size and postoperative kidney function following radical nephrectomy. Clin Epidemiol. 2019;11:333-348.
Ellis RJ, White VM, Bolton DM, Coory MD, Davis ID, Francis RS, Giles GG, Gobe GC, Marco DJT, Neale RE, Wood ST, Jordan SJ; the IMPROVE Investigators. Incident chronic kidney disease following radical nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma. Clin Genitourin Cancer. 2019;17(3):e581-e591.
Shen K, Vesey DA, Ellis RJ, Del Vecchio SJ, Cho Y, Teixeira-Pinto A, McGuckin MA, Johnson DW, Gobe GC. GRP78 expression in tumor and perinephric adipose tissue is not an optimal risk stratification marker for clear cell renal cell carcinoma. PloS ONE. 2019;14(1):e0210246.
Ng KL, Ellis RJ, Samaratunga H, Morais C, Gobe GC, Wood ST. Utility of cytokeratin 7, S100A1 and caveolin 1 as immunohistochemical biomarkers to differentiate chromophobe renal cell carcinoma from renal oncocytoma. Transl Androl Urol. 2019;8(S2):S123-S137.
Ellis RJ, Kalma B, Del Vecchio SJ, Aliano DN, Ng KL, Dimeski G, Ma L, Guard D, Bertram JF, Morais C, Oliver K, Wood ST, Gobe GC, Francis RS. Chronic kidney cortical damage is associated with baseline kidney function and albuminuria in patients managed with radical nephrectomy for kidney tumours. Pathology. 2019;51(1):32-38.
Del Vecchio SJ, Owens EP, Ellis RJ. Kidney cancer biobanking: considerations for a single institutional biorepository. Transl Androl Urol. 2019;8(S2):S224-S228.
Ellis RJ. Chronic kidney disease after nephrectomy: a clinically-significant entity? Transl Androl Urol. 2019;8(S2):S166-S174.
Ellis RJ, Edey DP, Del Vecchio SJ, McStea M, Campbell SB, Hawley CM, Johnson DW, Morais C, Jordan SJ, Francis RS, Wood ST, Gobe GC; Cancer Alliance Queensland. End-stage kidney disease following surgical management of kidney cancer. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2018;13(11):1641-1648.
Del Vecchio SJ, Ellis RJ. Cabozantinib for the management of metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma. J Kidney Cancer VHL. 2018;5(4):1-5.
Ellis RJ, Del Vecchio SJ, Kalma B, Ng KL, Morais C, Francis RS, Gobe GC, Ferris R, Wood ST. Association between preoperative hydration status and acute kidney injury in patients managed surgically for kidney tumours. Int Urol Nephrol. 2018;50(7):1211-1217.
Ahn T, Ellis RJ, White VM, Bolton DM, Coory MD, Davis ID, Francis RS, Giles GG, Gobe GC, Hawley CM, Johnson DW, Marco DJT, McStea M, Neale RE, Pascoe EM, Wood ST, Jordan SJ; the IMPROVE Investigators. Predictors of new-onset chronic kidney disease in patients managed surgically for T1a renal cell carcinoma: an Australian population-based analysis. J Surg Oncol. 2018;117(7):1597-1610.
Ellis RJ, Small DM, Ng KL, Vesey DA, Vitetta L, Francis RS, Gobe GC, Morais C. Indoxyl sulfate induces apoptosis and hypertrophy in human kidney proximal tubular cells. Toxicol Pathol. 2018;46(4):449-459.
Ellis RJ, Del Vecchio SJ, Ng KL, Owens EP, Coombes JS, Morais C, Francis RS, Wood ST, Gobe GC. The Correlates of Kidney Dysfunction - Tumour Nephrectomy Database (CKD-TUNED) Study: protocol for a prospective observational study. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2017;18(12):3281-3285.
Ellis RJ, Del Vecchio SJ, Ng KL, Dimeski G, Pascoe EM, Hawley CM, Johnson DW, Vesey DA, Coombes JS, Morais C, Francis RS, Wood ST, Gobe GC. Factors associated with acutely elevated serum creatinine following radical tumour nephrectomy: the CKD-TUNED study. Transl Androl Urol. 2017;6(5):899-909.
Ellis RJ, Joshi A, Ng KL, Francis RS, Gobe GC, Wood ST. Optimising assessment of kidney function when managing localised renal masses. Med J Aust. 2017;207(3):127-133.
Del Vecchio SJ, Ellis R, Gallagher K, Ng KL, Ma L, Strutton G, Wood S. A rare case of solitary kidney metastasis following primary laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma. J Kidney Cancer VHL. 2017;4(2):6-9.
Ellis RJ, Ng KL, Samaratunga H, Del Vecchio SJ, Wood ST, Gobe GC. Multifocal primary neoplasms in kidney allografts: evaluation of two cases. J Kidney Cancer VHL. 2016;3(2):14-22.
Ellis RJ, Small DM, Vesey DA, Johnson DW, Francis R, Vitetta L, Gobe GC, Morais C. Indoxyl sulphate and kidney disease: causes, consequences and interventions. Nephrology. 2016;21(3):170-177.