Our Scientists
Ursula R Kees PhD (Head of Division)
- Adjunct Professor University of Western Australia
- Consultant, Department Haematology/Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children
- Funding: Children’s Leukaemia & Cancer Research Foundation (Inc)
- Project: Children’s leukaemia and cancer
Alex H Beesley, PhD
- Adjunct Associate Professor, UWA; CLCRF Research Fellow
- Funding: Children’s Leukaemia & Cancer Research Foundation (Inc)
- Project: Targeting therapy and disease outcomes in paediatric cancer
Mark Cruickshank, PhD
- Senior Research Officer; Research Fellow
- Funding: Woolworths Fellowship via the Children’s Leukaemia & Cancer Research Foundation (Inc)
Nicholas Gottardo, MB ChB FRACP (Paeds.) PhD
- John Lillie Fellow
- Funding: John Lillie Research Fellowship
- Project: Development of a mouse ependymoma model
Raelene Endersby, PhD
- John Lillie Fellow
- Funding: John Lillie Research Fellowship
- Project: Preclinical assessment of novel therapies for paediatric brain tumours
Wayne K Greene, PhD
- Senior Lecturer Murdoch University
- Funding: Murdoch University
- Project: The role of ALDH1A retinoic acid-synthesizing enzymes in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
Jette Ford, BApplSc, Grad Dip Comp,
- Research Officer
- Funding: Children’s Leukaemia and Cancer Research Foundation (Inc)
- Project: Molecular genetics of childhood leukaemia
Amy Samuels, PhD
- Research Officer
- Funding: National Health and Medical Research Council
- Project: Targeting drug-resistance in paediatric acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
Meegan Howlett, PhD.
- Senior Research Officer
- Funding: National Health and Medical Research Council
- Project: The role of CTGF in the pathobiology of lymphoid tumours and response to therapy
Laurence Cheung, PhD
- Research Officer
- Funding: Children’s Leukaemia & Cancer Research Foundation (Inc)
- Project: The role of CTGF in the pathobiology of lymphoid tumours and response to therapy
Jacqueline McGlade, PhD
- Research officer
- Funding: Elliot Parish Fellowship in Cancer Research
- Project: Development of novel medulloblastoma mouse models to characterise efficacy and neurotoxocity of new therapies
Jasmin Heng, BSc (Hons)
- Research Assistant
- Funding: Children’s Leukaemia and Cancer Research Foundation (Inc.)
- Project: Therapy and molecular genetics of leukaemia in infants.
Joyce Oommen, BSc (Hons)
- Research Assistant
- Funding: Children’s Leukaemia and Cancer Research Foundation (Inc.)
- Project: Finding the most effective therapies for Midline Carcinoma
Anja Stirnweiss, PhD
- Research Officer
- Funding: Children’s Leukaemia and Cancer Research Foundation (Inc.)
- Project: Morpholino therapy for Childhood Cancer
Sajla Singh BSc (Hons)
- Research Assistant
- Funding: The Kids Cancer Project, NSW, Australia.
- Project: Improving the treatment for infants with leukaemia
Heloise Haase BSc (Hons)
- Research Assistant
- Funding: Children’s Leukaemia and Cancer Research Foundation (Inc.)
- Project: The role of CTGF in the pathobiology of lymphoid tumours and response to therapy
Hilary Hii, BSc (Hons)
- Research Assistant
- Funding: John Lillie Research Fellowship (Gottardo)
- Project: Development of improved therapeutic regimens for medulloblastoma using preclinical models
Alex Gout, PhD
- Research Officer
- Funding: Children’s Leukaemia and Cancer Research Foundation (Inc.)
- Project: Therapy and molecular genetics of leukaemia in infants.
Mani Kuchibhotla MSc
- Research Assistant
- Funding: Telethon Adventurers
- Project: Pre-clinical mouse models of paediatric brain tumours
Stewart Cattach
- Laboratory Assistant
- Funding: Children’s Leukaemia and Cancer Research Foundation (Inc.)
- Project: Children’s leukaemia and cancer