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Dr Hasindu Malshan Gamaarachchi

Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Bioinformatic methods development, Genomics and transcriptomics, Sequence analysis, Digital processor architectures, Electronic device and system performance evaluation, testing and simulation, Applications in life sciences, Distributed systems and algorithms, High performance computing, Performance evaluation
Keywords:

distributed computing

hardware & architecture

Hasindu Gamaarachchi focuses on the design, development and optimisation of bioinformatics software and hardware for real-time nanopore sequencing data analysis; and, prototyping novel domain-speci

Dr Ashwin Unnikrishnan

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Genomics and transcriptomics, Haematological tumours, Epigenetics (incl. genome methylation and epigenomics), Cancer cell biology, Cancer genetics, Cancer therapy (excl. chemotherapy and radiation therapy), Chemotherapy, Gene expression (incl. microarray and other genome-wide approaches), Pharmacogenomics, Haematological Tumours, Epigenetics (incl. Genome Methylation and Epigenomics), Cancer Cell Biology, Genomics, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Regenerative Medicine (incl. Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering), Cancer Genetics
SEO tags:

Cancer and Related Disorders

Expanding Knowledge in the Medical and Health Sciences

Keywords:

hematologic neoplasms

acute myeloid leukemia

myelodysplastic syndromes

rna splicing

myelodysplastic and myeloproliferative disorders

hematopoietic stem cells

translational medical research

adult stem cells

I am a biomedical research scientist and Head of the Molecular Mechanisms in Leukaemia laboratory (https://www.unsw.edu.au/medicine-health/our-schools/clinical-medicine/research-impact/research-gro

Dr James Blackburn

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Genomics and transcriptomics, Cancer genetics, Developmental genetics (incl. sex determination)
Keywords:

genomics

transcriptomics

cancer genetics

Dr Blackburn is Head of Production for the Garvan Sequencing Platform, holding key responsibilities for the provision and innovation of next generation sequencing services.

Associate Professor Fatemeh Vafaee

Faculty: Science
Fields of Research (FoR): Artificial intelligence, Systems biology, Bioinformatics and computational biology, Genomics and transcriptomics, Machine learning, Deep learning
SEO tags:

Cancer and Related Disorders

Diagnostic Methods

Diagnostics

Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences

Expanding Knowledge in the Medical and Health Sciences

Application Software Packages (excl. Computer Games)

Computer Software and Services

Keywords:

artificial intelligence

Professional Experience: 2023 - Present: Associate Professor, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences (BABS), UNSW Sydney

Professor Susan Ramus

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Cancer genetics, Genomics and transcriptomics, Predictive and prognostic markers, Obstetrics and gynaecology
SEO tags:

Women's Health

Keywords:

epithelial ovarian cancer

I co-lead the international ovarian tumor tissue analysis (OTTA) consortium, performing large scale genomics research to improve the survival of ovarian cancer patients.

Dr Selene Fernandez Valverde

Faculty: Science
Fields of Research (FoR): Bioinformatics and computational biology, Genomics and transcriptomics, Evolutionary biology, Plant biology
Keywords:

computational biology

rna

Selene is a genomic scientist & bioinformatician interested in understanding the role non-coding RNAs play in the evolution of gene regulatory landscapes within and across eukaryotes.