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Meet the team

Our staff

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Professor Simon Laws


Centre Director and Lead, Collaborative Genomics and Translation Group

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Professor Elin Gray


Centre Deputy Director and Lead, Translational Melanoma Group

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Professor Joanne Dickson


Professor of Mental Health and Lead, Mental Health Research Group

Dr Tenielle Porter

Dr Tenielle Porter


Lecturer and Co-Lead, Collaborative Genomics and Translation Group

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Dr Pauline Zaenker


Research Fellow and Group Lead, OncoAutoimmunity Research Group

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Dr Christopher Latella


Senior Lecturer and Group Lead, Neurophysiology Research Group

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Dr Vivian Chua


Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow and Lead, Cancer Cell Biology Group

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Dr Aaron Beasley


Post Doctoral Research Fellow and Lead, Cancer Genomics Group

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Professor Tony Blazevich


Professor of Biomechanics, Neurophysiology Research Group

Dr Lois Balmer

Associate Professor Lois Balmer


Associate Professor, Biomedical science

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Dr Leslie Calapre-Beasley


Research Fellow, Translational Melanoma Group

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Dr Cate Parry


Senior Lecturer, Mental Health Research Group

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Dr Eleanor O'Brien


Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Collaborative Genomics and Translation Group

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Dr Lidija Milicic


Lecturer and researcher in the Collaborative Genomics and Translation Group

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Dr Melissa Eccles


Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Collaborative Genomics and Translation Group

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Anna Reid


Clinical Study Coordinator, Translational Melanoma Group

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Sharon Middleton


Centre Coordinator, Centre for Precision Health

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Milcent Tsvangirayi


Facility Coordinator, Collaborative Genomics and Translation Group

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Anna Mills


Senior Research Assistant, Translational Melanoma Group

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Neha Pulyani


Research Adviser, Cancer Cell Biology Group

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Jessica Gornall


Research Officer, Translational Melanoma Group

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Tharani Senavirathna


Research Assistant, Cancer Cell Biology Group

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Emily Nguyen


Research Assistant, Translational Melanoma Group


HDR Students

PhD Students
Masters by Research Students
Honours
  • Rebecca Brann

Affiliate members

Adjunct and Honorary members

  • Clinical Professor Adnan Khattak (Director, Clinical Trials, Fiona Stanley Hospital)
  • Clinical Professor Benhur Amanuel (Service Director at PathWest)
  • Honorary Professor Mel Ziman (Melanoma Research, Edith Cowan University)
  • Professor Michael Millward (Foundation Clinical Chair, Cancer Research, UWA)
  • Professor Victor Villemagne (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
  • Professor Gareth Baynam (Clinical Geneticist and Director of The Rare Care Centre)
  • Honorary Professor Janet Taylor (Former ECU and Neuroscience Research Australia)
  • Emeritus Professor Alfred Allan
  • Associate Professor Belinda Brown (Centre for Healthy Ageing, Murdoch University)
  • Associate Professor Michelle Lupton (QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute)
  • Dr Afaf Abed (Peel Health Campus)
  • Dr James Doecke (CSIRO, QLD)
  • Dr Kym Wansbrough (Murdoch University)
  • Dr Lydia Warburton (Fiona Stanely Hospital)
  • Dr Michael Vacher (CSIRO, WA)
  • Dr Shane Fernandez (Indiana University, USA)
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