Guest Speaker: Professor Chamindie Punyadeera

This will we will be joined by Professor Chamindie Punyadeera, PhD, GCLead, GAICD, Head, Saliva and Liquid Biopsy Translational Laboratory, Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery (GRIDD) and Menzies Health Institute, Gold Coast, Griffith University, Australia. Chamindie will give a presenation on Advancing precision medicine through liquid biopsy approaches for cancer management. 

Professor Chamindie Punyadeera is an inventor and an ambassador to women in STEMM. She has had a hybrid research career working in industry as well as in academia. She heads the saliva and liquid biopsy translational laboratory at Griffith University in Brisbane. Chamindie’ s laboratory develops biomarkers from concept through to commercialisation. She has made ground breaking discoveries that has led to the world-first detection of an occult HPV driven oropharyngeal cancer in a healthy person, laying the foundation for a screening trial. Her research into saliva-based test to early diagnose and predict head and neck cancer, received FDA approval under breakthrough device designation for her industry partner in 2021.

Chair: Cassie Mutimer 

Sergeant: Doug Kelly

Fellowship: Bruce McNab

Door: Kiri McNamara & Chris Miranda 

Three Minute Person: Diane Masselos