MBBS (Hons) – University of Adelaide, Australia (1993)
MSc – University of London, England (1997)
MD – University of Adelaide, Australia (1998)
Fellowship – Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (2004)
Fellowship – Royal Australasian College of Physicians (2004)
Honors & Awards
2017 National Cancer Institute R35 Outstanding Investigator Award
2016 American Society of Hematology William Dameshek Prize
2016 St. Baldrick's Foundation Robert J. Arceci Innovation Award inaugural recipient
2016 Elected member, American Association of Physicians
2015 Fellow, Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences
2015 United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology Ramzi Cotran Young Investigator Award
2012 Meyenburg Award for Cancer Research
2012 Elected member, American Society of Clinical Investigation
2009 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences
2009 American Association for Cancer Research Team Science Award (with the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Hematologic Malignancies Program)
2009 Society for Pediatric Pathology Lotte Strauss Prize
2008 American Society of Hematology Joanne Levy, MD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement
2007 American Society of Hematology Scholar Award
2007 American Society of Hematology Merit Award
Research Interests
The use of integrated genomic and epigenomic approaches to understand the pathogenesis and evolution of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and related disorders
Defining the interaction of inherited and somatic genetic alterations in leukemogenesis
The use of in vitro and in vivo experimental approaches to model genomic abnormalities in leukemogenesis
Preclinical therapeutic testing to translate genomic discoveries to new treatment approaches in ALL
To provide a high-quality repository of tumor and normal samples to facilitate translational research performed by St Jude faculty and their collaborators
