Professor of Molecular Oncology, University of Sydney’s Faculty of Medicine and Hea

Professor Jennifer Byrne has spent her scientific career analysing childhood and adult cancers at a molecular level. She also has extensive experience in human tissue banking, from both the perspective of a researcher who has employed biospecimens throughout her research career, and through establishing, overseeing and networking cancer biobanks. Professor Byrne is conjoint Professor of Molecular Oncology within the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Medicine and Health, and has recently commenced a new position as Director of Biobanking with NSW Health Pathology. Professor Byrne was named as one of the journal Nature’s “10 people who mattered in 2017”, for identifying and reporting numerous flawed cancer research papers, some of which have been retracted from the literature.

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