Research Focus
The Medical Genomics Team analyses next generation sequence data to address clinical challenges in a variety of diseases. The approaches we take include:
- Characterising cancer genomes with short and long read sequencing to diagnosis the genetic cause of disease;
- Machine learning (ML) to predict patient outcomes and identify novel biomarkers;
- Computational immunogenomics to identify genomic and transcriptomic features associated with prognosis and treatment;
- Bioinformatic approaches to understand tumour heterogeneity and the tumour micro-environment;
- Identification of mutational processes that underlie tumour development.
Ultimately, we aim to take steps towards ‘personalised medicine’ to enable the diagnosis, management and treatment of patients.
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Research Projects
Current Research Projects
Cancer Genomics
Integrated multi-omic analysis for machine learning to predict patient outcomes
Cancer Immunotherapy
Research Team
Miranda Vidgen
Bonnie Wong
Georgina Hollway
Rebecca Johnston
Funding
- National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
- Cancer Council Queensland
- Cancer Australia
- Ian Potter Foundation
- QIMR Berghofer
Publications
Addala V et al. Computational immunogenomic approaches to predict response to cancer immunotherapies. Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology. 2023 doi: 10.1038/s41571-023-00830-6. PMID: 37907723
Tran K et al. Performance of tumour microenvironment deconvolution methods in breast cancer using single-cell simulated bulk mixtures. Nature Communications. 2023 14(1):5758. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-41385-5. PMID: 37717006
Naeini MN et al. Multi-omic features of oesophageal adenocarcinoma in patients treated with preoperative neoadjuvant therapy. Nature Communications. 2023 14(1):3155. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-38891-x. PMID: 37258531
Further Information
- The Genome Variation and Regulation in Disease
- The Translational Cancer Immunotherapy Laboratory
- Global Health and Tropical Medicine
- Leukaemia Metabolism
- The Molecular Cancer Epidemiology Laboratory
- The Molecular Oncology Laboratory
- The Conjoint Gastroenterology Laboratory
- The Leukaemia Research Laboratory
- The Cancer Neuroscience Laboratory
- The Translational Oncology Discovery Group
- Sid Faithfull Brain Cancer Laboratory
- Andrew Barbour, Princess Alexandra Hospital and Frazer Institute, University of Queensland
- David Fielding, RBWH
- Peter Simpson, UQCCR, University of Queensland
- Sunil Lakhani and Amy McCart Reed, UQCCR, The University of Queensland
- Bruce Robinson, Jenette Creaney and Alec Redwood, NCARD and University of Western Australia
- Lata Vadlamudi, RBWH and UQCCR, University of Queensland
- James Wilmot, Melanoma Institute Australia
- Professor Kiarash Khosrotehrani, Frazer Institute, University of Queensland
- Aldo Scarpa, University of Verona
- Australian Genomics
- Pam Pollock, Queensland University of Technology
- Sean Grimmond, VCCC, University of Melbourne
- genomiQa Pty Ltd