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, VPCC PhD Student

Postdoctoral Scientist

• Dr Paul Daniel
• Dr Marius Dannappel
• Dr Dongbin Jin
• Dr Hanbyeol Lee
• Dr Laura Moffitt
• Dr Claire Xin Sun, Bioinformatician
• Dr Vanessa Tsui, Postdoctoral Researcher, Functional Genomics - funded by Robert Connor Dawes Foundation
• Dr Vijesh Vaghjiani
• Dr Chunhua (Nick) Wan
• Dr Yichen Zhou
• Dr Danxi Zhu

Distinguished Scientist

• Emeritus Professor Alan Trounson
• Professor Bryan Williams

Administrative Support

• Steph Forman, PA to Professor Ron Firestein
• Eliza Metcalfe, VPCC Program Manager

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 Shakher Ramdave
• Dr Daniel Croagh
• Dr Joanne Lundy

Honorary Research Associates

• Dr Minni Änkö
• Dr Raffi Gugasyan
• Alastair Kwok
• Dr Terry Lim
• Dr Christine White
• Dr Amy Wilson
• Yuriy Zhukov

Laboratory Manager

• Hui Kheng Chua, Senior Research Assistant, Lab Manager

Research Support Staff

• Dr Hamid Bidkhori, Researcher
• James Cooper
• Jennie Do, Junior Research Assistant
• Rhiannon Dudley, Clinical Sample Collections and Database Management
• Dr Dasun Fernando, Volunteer
• Chaitanya Inampudi, Research Assistant
• Bao Le, Junior Research Assistant
• Steve Lin, Research Assistant
• Nivedhitha Selvakumar, Research Assistant
• Yaseer Syed, Volunteer
• Felicia Tan, Research Assistant
• Vincent Xue, Bioinformatician

PhD Students

• Shazia Adjumain, Gideon Gratzer PhD Scholar - funded by Robert Connor Dawes Foundation
• Liesl Bramberger
• Chaozhen Chen
• Brittany Doran, Research Support Staff
• Shaye Game
• Dr Hugh Gao
• Gabriel Goncalves
• Grace Huang
• Barnaby Kelly
• Dr Yuqing Liang, Children's Cancer Foundation PhD Student
• Anna Lin
• Dr Tima Shamekhi
• Sukhpreet Singh
• Dingyin Sun
• Christie Sun
• Erwin Tanuwidjaya
• Nishant Thakur
• Lynda Truong
• Dr Shahla Vilcassim
• Dr Elise Young
• Nelson Yu
• Dr Nataliya Zhukova, VPCC PhD Student
• Alice Figueiredo Camargos

Masters Students

• Billy Chen
• Samiksha Dhananjay
• Dehui (Krystal) Xie

Honours Students

• Lily Fraser
• Amber Badvi

Undergraduate Student

• Yee Jun (Nicole) Tang

Visiting Scholars

• Nicole Alexia
• Bianca Lianto
• Nuttanan (Big) Pholngam, Visiting PhD student
• Rattanawan (Mine) Thubthed, Visiting PhD student
• Abigail Yoel

VPCC Next Generation Precision Medicine

• Shazia Adjumain, Gideon Gratzer PhD Scholar - funded by Robert Connor Dawes Foundation
• Vikesh Ajith, Bioinformatics Research Assistant
• Nicole Alexia
• Samitha Amarapathy
• Dr Nicole Chew, Senior Organoid Specialist
• Hui Kheng Chua, Senior Research Assistant, Lab Manager
• Dr Paul Daniel
• Professor Ron Firestein
• Lily Fraser
• Dr Hugh Gao
• Rajithri (Dilru) Habarakada, Biobank Specialist
• Bao Le, Junior Research Assistant
• Dr Hanbyeol Lee
• Dr Yuqing Liang, Children's Cancer Foundation PhD Student
• Melissa Loi, Technical Sequencing Specialist
• Naama Neeman, VPCC, Director of Operations
• Monty Panday, Analyst Programmer
• Dr Claire Xin Sun, Bioinformatician
• Dingyin Sun
• Dr Vanessa Tsui, Postdoctoral Researcher, Functional Genomics - funded by Robert Connor Dawes Foundation
• Professor Bryan Williams
• Abigail Yoel
• Dr Yichen Zhou
• Dr Danxi Zhu

Australian and New Zealand Children’s Haematology/Oncology Group

• Jess Bucci, ANZCHOG Marketing and Communications Coordinator
• Jasper de Boer, ANZCHOG Grants and Partnerships Manager
• 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
• Alexandra McKellar, ANZCHOG Clinical Trial Assistant & Administration Officer
• 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