Professor Grimmond will discuss how these comprehensive whole genome diagnostic approaches are being tested in challenging cancer cases, with opportunity for discussion.
Professor Sean Grimmond
Professor Sean Grimmond is Director of the University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research, Head of Melbourne Medical School’s Department of Clinical Pathology and is the Bertalli Chair in Cancer Medicine. Sean is the co-chair of the VCCC Precision Oncology program and leads the UMCCRs Cancers of Low Survival & Unmet Need Initiative (COLUMN).
Professor Grimmond holds a Genetics PhD (UQ), is a Scientific Fellow (RCPA) and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. Professor Grimmond pioneered patient genome and transcriptome almost a decade ago and led Australia’s International Cancer Genome Consortium efforts, which identified the mutagenic processes, driver mutations, and therapeutic vulnerabilities of many high-mortality malignancies.
