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
• Associate Professor Pouya Faridi
• Professor Ron Firestein
• Associate Professor Daniel Gough
• Dr George Grigoriadis
• Dr Jim Vadolas
• Dr Wilson Wong

Senior Research Scientist

• Dr Claire Xin Sun, Bioinformatician

Research Scientist

• Dr Daniel Garama, Proteomics Specialist
• Dr Nataliya Zhukova

Postdoctoral Scientist

• Dr Shazia Adjumain, Postdoctoral Researcher, Functional Genomics - funded by Robert Connor Dawes Foundation
• Dr Rheannon Blucher
• Dr Paul Daniel
• Dr Marius Dannappel
• Dr Farnaz Fahimi
• Dr Gabriel Goncalves
• Dr Chaitanya Inampudi
• Dr Hanbyeol Lee
• Dr Laura Moffitt
• Dr Tima Shamekhi
• 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 Daniel Croagh
• Dr Jane Fox
• Dr Beena Kumar
• Dr Shahla Vilcassim
• Dr Joanne Lundy

Honorary Research Associates

• Dr Raffi Gugasyan
• Dr Dongbin Jin
• Alastair Kwok
• Bianca Lianto
• Dr Terry Lim
• Nuttanan (Big) Pholngam
• Rattanawan (Mine) Thubthed
• Dr Christine White
• Dr Amy Wilson

Laboratory Manager

• Gilu Abraham

Research Support Staff

• Vikesh Ajith, Bioinformatics Data Engineer
• Dr Nicole Chew, Senior Organoid Specialist - funded by Lindonlight Collective
• Wan Lin Chin, Junior Research Assistant
• James Cooper, Research Assistant
• Samiksha Dhananjay, Volunteer
• Jennie Do, Laboratory Manager and Technical Specialist
• Dr Dasun Fernando, Volunteer
• Eliana Firestein, Volunteer
• Yiwen Guan, Junior Research Assistant
• Xinyi Guo, Bioinformatics Research Assistant
• Steve Lin, Research Assistant
• Melissa Loi, Research Assistant
• Lethicia Low, Research Assistant
• Ishika Mahajan, Volunteer
• Nivedhitha Selvakumar, Research Assistant
• Huiyu (Nova) Shi, Junior Research Assistant
• Dr Yuxin (Sally) Sun, Cooper Rice-Brading Foundation - Sarcoma Research Specialist
• Isaac Woodhouse, Senior Bioinformatician
• Vincent Xue, Bioinformatician
• Jingjing Zhao, Paediatric cancer model specialist - funded by Lindonlight Collective

PhD Students

• Neksha Batta, PhD student - Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University
• Chaozhen Chen
• Grace Huang
• Barnaby Kelly
• Yan Zhen Lim
• Anna Lin
• Jin Luo
• Menghan Luo, Ryley Kemp Scholar, funded by Isabella and Marcus Foundation
• Jack Roberts
• Mersedeh Shayan
• Sukhpreet Singh
• Dingyin Sun
• Nurfarhanah (Farhanah) Syed Sulaiman
• Erwin Tanuwidjaya
• Nishant Thakur
• Lynda Truong
• Angela Vu
• Dr Elise Young
• Nelson Yu
• Wenkai Zhang
• Dr Nataliya Zhukova
• Alice Figueiredo Camargos

Masters Student

• Yue Zhang

Honours Students

• Maddy Clark
• Eleanor McLean

Undergraduate Student

• Erin Lin, Research Intern
• Aaron Wong

Visiting Scholars

• Isabella Buchner
• Finn Rennie, Research Intern
• Andor (Norbert) Szücs
• Karyn Tjahyadi
• Abigail Yoel

Next Generation Precision Medicine program

• Dr Shazia Adjumain, Postdoctoral Researcher, Functional Genomics - funded by Robert Connor Dawes Foundation
• Vikesh Ajith, Bioinformatics Data Engineer
• Samitha Amarapathy
• Dr Nicole Chew, Senior Organoid Specialist - funded by Lindonlight Collective
• Wan Lin Chin, Junior Research Assistant
• James Cooper, Research Assistant
• Dr Paul Daniel
• Professor Ron Firestein
• Eliana Firestein, Volunteer
• Yiwen Guan, Junior Research Assistant
• Xinyi Guo, Bioinformatics Research Assistant
• Dr Hanbyeol Lee
• Yan Zhen Lim
• Menghan Luo, Ryley Kemp Scholar, funded by Isabella and Marcus Foundation
• Ishika Mahajan, Volunteer
• Eleanor McLean
• Naama Neeman, Head of Program Operations, Childhood Cancer
• Dr Claire Xin Sun, Bioinformatician
• Dr Yuxin (Sally) Sun, Cooper Rice-Brading Foundation - Sarcoma Research Specialist
• Dingyin Sun
• Karyn Tjahyadi
• Abigail Yoel
• Jingjing Zhao, Paediatric cancer model specialist - funded by Lindonlight Collective
• Dr Yichen Zhou
• Dr Danxi Zhu

Australian and New Zealand Children’s Haematology/Oncology Group

• Jessica Bodinnar, ANZCHOG National Projects Officer
• Benjamin Bugeja, ANZCHOG Communications & Media Lead
• Annette Dempsey, ANZCHOG National Study Coordinator
• Nicole Fairweather
• Sara Field, ANZCHOG Business and Finance Manager
• 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