Research interests and expertise

  • Genitourinary cancers (with prostate cancer focus)
  • Circulating tumour DNA and tissue biomarkers
  • Molecular biology and bioinformatics
  • Integrating translational research into clinical trials
  • Biobanking and database creation

Grants and funding

The following list represents funding obtained as either Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator:

  • 2026-2027, Eastern Health Institute Oliver Blumberg Prostate Cancer Research Grant
  • 2026, Viertel Charitable Foundation Clinical Investigator Award
  • 2025-2026, ANZUP Below the Belt Research Fund
  • 2023-2024, Australian & New Zealand Urogenital and Prostate (ANZUP) Cancer Trials Group Synchrony Fellowship Award
  • 2022-2024, Prostate Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Award
  • 2022-2023, University of British Columbia Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
  • 2021, Cancer Council Australia Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
  • 2017-2020, National Health and Medical Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship
  • 2018, ANZUP Below the Belt Research Fund

For further details on above projects and additional research funding, see Research Funding section of extended CV here.

Committees

European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) Global Leadership Program
Class of 2025-2026

ANZUP translational research subcommittee
TheraP (NCT03392428)
ENZARAD (NCT03392428)
DASL-HiCAP (NCT03392428)

Melbourne Urological Research Alliance PDX program
Prostate Oncology Working Committee