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Kate Sutherland

BSc PhD

Translational Research Co-Chair /

Laboratory Head, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

A/Prof Kate Sutherland is a Laboratory Head, Cancer Biology and Stem Cells Division, at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI). Kate completed a Bachelor of Science (Hons) degree and PhD from The University of Melbourne in 2005.

From 2006-2012, she undertook postdoctoral studies under the mentorship of Prof Anton Berns at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, before returning to Melbourne in 2013 to establish an independent research group at WEHI.

Her research program is dedicated to understanding tumour heterogeneity in lung cancer. Her work has established new approaches and technologies to study lung cancer, leading to seminal findings on new genetic drivers, the immune microenvironment, and the role of the metabolome in lung cancer. Kate has been the recipient of funding from Worldwide Cancer Research (UK), NHMRC, the Victorian Cancer Agency and holds the Julie and Alston Centenary Fellowship.

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