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28
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9803
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National Ranking
54

Overview

John Alford is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their research spans multiple fields with a focus on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. The main subfields of their work include molecular biology, oncology, physiology, cell biology, and epidemiology.

The scientist has contributed to topics such as protein degradation and inhibitors, peptidase inhibition and analysis, ubiquitin and proteasome pathways, autophagy in disease and therapy, multiple myeloma research and treatments, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, and genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Recent publications illustrate the scope of their work in molecular and medical biology. These include:

  • DCAF1-based PROTACs with activity against clinically validated targets overcoming intrinsic- and acquired-degrader resistance, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Genome-wide CRISPR screen identifies protein pathways modulating tau protein levels in neurons, 2021, Communications Biology
  • International survey evidence on user and community co-delivery of prevention activities relevant to public services and outcomes, 2021, Public Management Review
  • An iron-dependent metabolic vulnerability underlies VPS34-dependence in RKO cancer cells, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Expressed Barcoding Enables High-Resolution Tracking of the Evolution of Drug Tolerance, 2023, Cancer Research

John Alford frequently collaborates with a set of co-authors, including John Reece-Hoyes, Martin Schröder, Martin Renatus, Xiaoyou Liang, and Thomas Zöller.

Their work is regularly published in venues such as Nature Communications, Communications Biology, Public Management Review, PLoS ONE, and Cancer Research, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach across molecular biology, oncology, and public health domains.

Best Publications

  • Wicked Problems: Implications for Public Policy and Management

    Brian W. Head;John Alford;John Alford

  • Engaging Public Sector Clients: From Service-Delivery to Co-Production

    John Alford

  • Public Value Pragmatism as the Next Phase of Public Management

    John Alford;Owen Edward Hughes

  • Making Sense of Public Value: Concepts, Critiques and Emergent Meanings

    John Alford;Janine O'Flynn

  • Defining the Client in the Public Sector: A Social‐Exchange Perspective

    John Alford

  • Why Do Public-Sector Clients Coproduce? Toward a Contingency Theory

    John Alford

  • Engaging Public Sector Clients

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  • The Multiple Facets of Co-Production: Building on the work of Elinor Ostrom

    John Alford

  • Wicked and less wicked problems: a typology and a contingency framework

    John Alford;Brian W. Head

  • Rethinking Public Service Delivery: Managing with External Providers

    John Alford;Janine O'Flynn

  • A public management road less travelled: Clients as co-producers of public services

    John Alford

  • Towards an empirical research agenda for public value theory

    Jean Hartley;John Alford;Eva Knies;Scott Douglas

  • Co-Production, Interdependence and Publicness: Extending public service-dominant logic

    John Alford

  • Rethinking Public Service Delivery

    John Lyle Alford;Janine O'Flynn

  • The Contract State: Public Management and the Kennett Government

    Deirdre Louise O'Neill;John Alford

  • PUBLIC VALUE AND POLITICAL ASTUTENESS IN THE WORK OF PUBLIC MANAGERS: THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE

    Jean Hartley;John Alford;Owen Hughes;Sophie Yates

  • The Limits to Traditional Public Administration, or Rescuing Public Value from Misrepresentation

    John Alford

  • Co-Production of Public Services in Australia: The Roles of Government Organisations and Co-Producers

    John Alford;Sophie Yates

  • Public Value from Co-production by Clients

    John Alford

  • Into the Purple Zone: Deconstructing the politics/administration distinction

    John Alford;John Alford;Jean Hartley;Sophie Yates;Owen E. Hughes

  • The Contract State

    J Alford;D O'Neill;L McGuire;M Considine

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean Hartley
Jean Hartley The Open University
Brian Head
Brian Head University of Queensland
Paul 't Hart
Paul 't Hart Utrecht University
Mark Considine
Mark Considine University of Melbourne
Carsten Greve
Carsten Greve Copenhagen Business School

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