Scientists and staff

Centre Head

• Professor Ron Firestein

Deputy Centre Head

• Associate Professor Jason Cain

Research Group Heads

• Dr Maree Bilandzic
• Associate Professor Jason Cain
• Dr Catherine Carmichael
• Dr Pouya Faridi
• Professor Ron Firestein
• Associate Professor Daniel Gough
• Dr George Grigoriadis
• Dr Jim Vadolas
• Dr Wilson Wong

Research Scientist

• Dr Daniel Garama, Proteomics Specialist
• Dr Nataliya Zhukova

Postdoctoral Scientist

• Shazia Adjumain, Postdoctoral Researcher, Functional Genomics - funded by Robert Connor Dawes Foundation
• Dr Paul Daniel
• Dr Marius Dannappel
• Dr Farnaz Fahimi
• Dr Gabriel Goncalves
• Dr Hanbyeol Lee
• Dr Laura Moffitt
• Dr Claire Xin Sun, Bioinformatician
• Dr Vijesh Vaghjiani
• Dr Chunhua (Nick) Wan
• Dr Yichen Zhou
• Dr Danxi Zhu

Distinguished Scientist

• Emeritus Professor Alan Trounson
• Professor Bryan Williams

Administrative Support

• Dr Ava Faridi, Grant and Manuscript Writing
• Steph Forman, PA to Professor Ron Firestein

Honorary Fellows

• Associate Professor Elizabeth Algar
• Professor David Eisenstat
• Dr Vinod Ganju
• Professor Justin Moore

Honorary Clinical Associates

• Dr Muhammad (Alam) Alamgeer
• Associate Professor Surein Arulananda
• Dr Jane Fox
• Dr Beena Kumar
• Dr Daniel Croagh
• Dr Joanne Lundy

Honorary Research Associates

• Nicole Alexia
• Dr Minni Änkö
• Dr Raffi Gugasyan
• Dr Dongbin Jin
• Alastair Kwok
• Bianca Lianto
• Dr Terry Lim
• Rattanawan (Mine) Thubthed
• Dr Shahla Vilcassim
• Dr Christine White
• Dr Amy Wilson
• Abigail Yoel

Laboratory Managers

• Gilu Abraham
• Hui Kheng Chua, Senior Research Assistant, Lab Manager

Research Support Staff

• Vikesh Ajith, Bioinformatics Data Engineer
• Dr Nicole Chew, Senior Organoid Specialist
• James Cooper, Research Assistant
• Samiksha Dhananjay, Volunteer
• Jennie Do, Research Assistant
• Dr Dasun Fernando, Volunteer
• Eliana Firestein, Volunteer
• Yiwen Guan, Volunteer
• Xinyi Guo, Bioinformatics Research Assistant
• Rajithri (Dilru) Habarakada, Biobank Specialist
• Chaitanya Inampudi, Research Assistant
• Bao Le, Junior Research Assistant
• Steve Lin, Research Assistant
• Melissa Loi, Research Assistant
• Lethicia Low, Research Assistant
• Ms Jin Luo, Volunteer
• Ishika Mahajan, Volunteer
• Nivedhitha Selvakumar, Research Assistant
• Dr Yuxin (Sally) Sun, Cooper Rice-Brading Foundation - Sarcoma Research Specialist
• Yaseer Syed, Volunteer
• Isaac Woodhouse, Senior Bioinformatician
• Vincent Xue, Bioinformatician

PhD Students

• Liesl Bramberger
• Chaozhen Chen
• Brittany Doran, Research Support Staff
• Dr Hugh Gao
• Grace Huang
• Barnaby Kelly
• Dr Yuqing Liang, Children's Cancer Foundation PhD Student
• Anna Lin
• Dr Tima Shamekhi
• Mengyuan Shi
• Sukhpreet Singh
• Dingyin Sun
• Nurfarhanah (Farhanah) Syed Sulaiman
• Erwin Tanuwidjaya
• Nishant Thakur
• Lynda Truong
• Dr Elise Young
• Nelson Yu
• Dr Nataliya Zhukova
• Alice Figueiredo Camargos
• Shaye Game, ANZCHOG Clinical Trials Assistant

Honours Student

• Angie Bitticaca

Undergraduate Student

• Rafia Ahmed, Vacation student
• Sara Matar, Vacation student
• Rachel Tang, Vacation student

Visiting Scholars

• Nuttanan (Big) Pholngam, Visiting PhD student
• Karyn Tjahyadi, Visitor
• Yi-Fang Yang, Visiting PhD student

Next Generation Precision Medicine program

• Shazia Adjumain, Postdoctoral Researcher, Functional Genomics - funded by Robert Connor Dawes Foundation
• Rafia Ahmed, Vacation student
• Vikesh Ajith, Bioinformatics Data Engineer
• Nicole Alexia
• Samitha Amarapathy
• Angie Bitticaca
• Dr Nicole Chew, Senior Organoid Specialist
• James Cooper, Research Assistant
• Dr Paul Daniel
• Eliana Firestein, Volunteer
• Professor Ron Firestein
• Yiwen Guan, Volunteer
• Xinyi Guo, Bioinformatics Research Assistant
• Rajithri (Dilru) Habarakada, Biobank Specialist
• Bao Le, Junior Research Assistant
• Dr Hanbyeol Lee
• Dr Yuqing Liang, Children's Cancer Foundation PhD Student
• Ishika Mahajan, Volunteer
• Naama Neeman, Head of Program Operations, Childhood Cancer
• Dingyin Sun
• Dr Claire Xin Sun, Bioinformatician
• Dr Yuxin (Sally) Sun, Cooper Rice-Brading Foundation - Sarcoma Research Specialist
• Rachel Tang, Vacation student
• Karyn Tjahyadi, Visitor
• Professor Bryan Williams
• Dr Yichen Zhou
• Dr Danxi Zhu

Australian and New Zealand Children’s Haematology/Oncology Group

• Jasper de Boer, ANZCHOG Grants and Partnerships Manager
• Annette Dempsey, ANZCHOG National Study Coordinator
• Nicole Fairweather
• Sara Field, ANZCHOG Administration & Finance Officer
• Shaye Game, ANZCHOG Clinical Trials Assistant
• Matthew Ivers, ANZCHOG National Study Coordinator
• Dr Kathryn Kinross, ANZCHOG National Study Coordinator
• Kylie May, ANZCHOG Project and Grants Officer
• Alexandra McKellar, ANZCHOG National Study Coordinator
• Penny Molnar, ANZCHOG Communications and Media Manager
• Rosie Newman, ANZCHOG National Study Coordinator
• Sharina Omerovic, ANZCHOG Clinical Trial Start-Up Specialist
• Lucy Romanoff, ANZCHOG Clinical Trials Assistant - Admin Officer
• Robyn Strong, ANZCHOG Chief Executive Officer
• Ciara Tremblay, ANZCHOG National Study Coordinator