Centre Head
Research Group Heads
Dr Jason Cain
Dr Catherine Carmichael
Professor Ron Firestein
Associate Professor Daniel Gough
Dr George Grigoriadis
Dr Andrew Stephens
Dr Jim Vadolas
Professor Bryan Williams
Dr Wilson Wong
Dr Minni Änkö
Research Scientist
Postdoctoral Scientist
Dr Paul Daniel
Dr Marius Dannappel
Dr Hanbyeol Lee
Dr Laura Moffitt
Dr Karthika Radhakrishnan
Dr Xin (Claire) Sun, Bioinformatician
Dr Vanessa Tsui, Postdoctoral Researcher, Functional Genomics - funded by Robert Connor Dawes Foundation
Dr Vijesh Vaghjiani
Dr Chunhua (Nick) Wan
Dr Amy Wilson
Dr Hariharan Sivaraman
Distinguished Scientist
Administrative Support
Honorary Fellows
Honorary Clinical Associates
Dr Muhammad (Alam) Alamgeer
Dr Surein Arulananda
Dr Jane Fox
Dr Beena Kumar
Dr Shakher Ramdave
Dr Daniel Croagh
Dr Joanne Lundy
Honorary Research Associates
Dr Minni Änkö
James Cooper
Dr Pouya Faridi
Dr Raffi Gugasyan
Dr Adam Rainczuk
Dr Christine White
Yuriy Zhukov
Laboratory Manager
Research Support Staff
Hui Kheng Chua, Senior Research Assistant, Lab Manager
Rhiannon Dudley, Senior Technical Assistant
Evan Hao, Research Assistant
Chaitanya Inampudi, Research Assistant
Steve Lin, Research Assistant
Meagan Ruppert, Research Assistant
Dr Lakshmi (Priya) Sundaravel, Research Assistant - Volunteer
Yaseer Syed, Volunteer
Lynda Truong, Research Assistant
Jonathan Wu, Junior Research Assistant
PhD Students
Shazia Adjumain, Gideon Gratzer PhD Scholar
Brittany Doran
Dasun Fernando
Shaye Game
Dr Hugh Gao
Dr Yuqing Liang, Children's Cancer Foundation PhD Student
Maria Petraki
Sukhpreet Singh
Christie Sun
Nishant Thakur
Motahhareh (Flora) Tourchi
Shahla Vilcassim
Dr Danxi Zhu
Dr Nataliya Zhukova, VPCC PhD Student
Alice Figueiredo Camargos
Benjamin Seager
Masters Students
Honours Students
Undergraduate Student
VPCC Next Generation Precision Medicine
Shazia Adjumain, Gideon Gratzer PhD Scholar
Vikesh Ajith, Bioinformatics Research Assistant
Samitha Amarapathy
Dr Jason Cain
Dr Nicole Chew, Senior Organoid Specialist
Dr Paul Daniel
Dr Peter Downie
Dasun Fernando
Professor Ron Firestein
Rajithri (Dilru) Habarakada, Biobank Specialist
Evan Hao, Research Assistant
Dr Hanbyeol Lee
Dr Yuqing Liang, Children's Cancer Foundation PhD Student
Yang (Henry) Lin
Melissa Loi, Technical Sequencing Specialist
Eliza Metcalfe, VPCC Program Manager
Naama Neeman, VPCC, Director of Operations
Amanda Nguyen
Monty Panday, Analyst Programmer
Dr Fatemeh Shamekhi
Dr Xin (Claire) Sun, Bioinformatician
Motahhareh (Flora) Tourchi
Dr Vanessa Tsui, Postdoctoral Researcher, Functional Genomics - funded by Robert Connor Dawes Foundation
Dr Nataliya Zhukova, VPCC PhD Student
Australian and New Zealand Children’s Haematology/Oncology Group
Annette Dempsey, ANZCHOG National Study Coordinator
Nicole Fairweather
Sara Field, ANZCHOG Administration & Finance Officer
Matthew Ivers, ANZCHOG National Study Coordinator
Dr Kathryn Kinross, ANZCHOG National Study Coordinator
Angel Marazita, ANZCHOG Clinical Trials Assistant
Kylie May, ANZCHOG Project and Grants Officer
Penny Molnar, ANZCHOG Communications and Media Manager
Rosie Newman, ANZCHOG National Study Coordinator
Sharina Omerovic, ANZCHOG Clinical Trial Start-Up Specialist
Linda Raineri, ANZCHOG National Trials Manager
Lucy Romanoff, ANZCHOG Clinical Trials Assistant - Admin Officer
Robyn Strong, ANZCHOG Chief Executive Officer
Kim Wright, ANZCHOG National Study Coordinator