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Since 1998, the Perkins has grown to become one of the nation's leading adult medical research centres, where a close-knit team of more than 450 research and clinical staff work together to defeat the major diseases that impact our community.
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OUR PEOPLE

Board Of Directors

Hon Ben Morton
Chair
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Professor Peter Leedman AO
Director and Chief Executive Officer
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Professor Tim Colmer
Director
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Frank Cooper AO
Director
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Lorraine Driscoll
Director
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Rebecca Ostergaard
Director
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Val Raubenheimer
Director
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Yannick Spencer
Director
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Professor Joseph Trapani AO
Director
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Executive Team

Professor Peter Leedman AO
Director and Chief Executive Officer
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Professor Moira Clay
Deputy Director
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Peter Dolnik
Chief Operating Officer
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Paige Gibbs
Chief Engagement Officer
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Mimli Kulshreshtha
Chief Financial Officer, Company Secretary
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Deva North
Chief People Officer
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Research Executive Team

Professor Peter Leedman AO
Director and Chief Executive Officer
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Professor Moira Clay
Deputy Director
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Professor Alistair Forrest
Systems Biology and Genomics (Associate Director Scientific, Co-Chair Research Leadership Team)
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Associate Professor Andrew Redfern
Translational Oncology (Associate Director Clinical, Co-Chair Research Leadership Team)
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Associate Professor Elena Juan Pardo
T3mPLATE (Translational 3D Printing Laboratory for Advanced Tissue Engineering)
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Research Leadership Team

Professor Alistair Forrest
Systems Biology and Genomics (Associate Director Scientific, Co-Chair Research Leadership Team)
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Associate Professor Andrew Redfern
Translational Oncology (Associate Director Clinical, Co-Chair Research Leadership Team)
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Professor Moira Clay
Deputy Director
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Dr Jamie Bellinge
Program Leader - Cardiovascular Science & Diabetes
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Professor Pilar Blancafort
Cancer Epigenetics (Program Leader - Cancer)
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Professor Ryan Lister AM
Epigenetics and Genomics (Program Leader - Genome Biology and Genetic Diseases)
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Theodore Ng
Research Development Manager
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Professor Kevin Pfleger
Molecular Endocrinology and Pharmacology
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Hanane Belhoul-Fakir
PhD student (Chair EMCR Committee)
Henry Purbrick
PhD Candidate (Chair Student Committee)

Laboratory / Research Group Leaders

Associate Professor Andrew Redfern
Translational Oncology (Associate Director Clinical, Co-Chair Research Leadership Team)
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Professor Alistair Forrest
Systems Biology and Genomics (Associate Director Scientific, Co-Chair Research Leadership Team)
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Professor Peter Leedman AO
Director and Chief Executive Officer
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Dr Jamie Bellinge
Program Leader - Cardiovascular Science & Diabetes
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Professor Pilar Blancafort
Cancer Epigenetics (Program Leader - Cancer)
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Dr Aron Chakera
Translational Renal Research
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Professor Girish Dwivedi
APEXHeart Lab
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Professor Daniel Fatovich
Centre for Clinical Research in Emergency Medicine
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Professor Ruth Ganss
Cancer Microenvironment
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Professor Elin Gray
Chair Melanoma Discovery
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Associate Professor Juliana Hamzah
Targeted Drug Delivery, Imaging and Therapy
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Professor Shirley Jansen AM
Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Research
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Associate Professor Elena Juan Pardo
T3mPLATE (Translational 3D Printing Laboratory for Advanced Tissue Engineering)
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Professor Brendan Kennedy
BRITElab (Bioimaging Research and Innovation for Translational Engineering Laboratory)
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Emeritus Professor Nigel Laing AO
Preventive Genetics
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Professor Ryan Lister AM
Epigenetics and Genomics (Program Leader - Genome Biology and Genetic Diseases)
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Professor Grant Morahan
Centre for Diabetes Research
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Professor Kevin Pfleger
Molecular Endocrinology and Pharmacology
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Professor Gina Ravenscroft
Rare Disease Genetics and Functional Genomics
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Professor Alexey V. Terskikh
Chromatin and Ageing
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Emeritus Professor George Yeoh
Liver Disease and Carcinogenesis
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Research Integrity Advisors

Rikki Brown
Research Associate
Dr Bo He
Research Associate
Professor Alistair Forrest
Systems Biology and Genomics (Associate Director Scientific, Co-Chair Research Leadership Team)
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Dr Rhonda Taylor
Team Leader, Disease Models and Therapies
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Scientific Advisory Committee

Professor Sue Clark
Scientific Advisory Committee Member
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Professor Gemma Figtree AM
Scientific Advisory Committee Member
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Professor Nadia Rosenthal
Scientific Advisory Committee Member
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Professor Joseph Trapani AO
Director
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Professor Naomi Wray
Scientific Advisory Committee Member
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Important information

All donations of $2 and over are tax deductible in Australia.

Perkins is registered with the Australian Taxation Office as a Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR): Charitable Fundraising Authority No DGR CC20761

The Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research recognises Australia’s first healers and scientists, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We acknowledge the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation, the Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live and work, and pay respects to their elders past and present.

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