Melissa Southey
Biography
Professor Melissa Southey OAM, BSc (Hons)(Pathology), PhD (Medicine), GradDip (Law), FHGSA, FFSc (RCPA), leads research programs focused on multiple-case cancer families, early onset disease and heritable risk factors that are providing the evidence base for best practice guidelines for the clinical management of individuals at high risk of the disease.
Professor Southey has led multidisciplinary teams in diagnostic and research settings in Australia and internationally, supported by programmatic awards from the European Commission, the National Institutes of Health (USA), NHMRC and The National Breast Cancer Foundation totalling over 30M in the last 5 years. She has co-authored more than 650 peer reviewed publications (H-index 130, Citations 70,062) and was named by Clarivate in 2018 as a Highly Cited Researcher. She actively participates on national and international scientific advisory, governance and editorial bodies and in 2021 was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) (General Division) for service to epidemiology and precision medicine.
She is engaged with a large sector of the scientific research community via her leadership of Australia’s first NATA accredited Biobanking facility, Biobanking Victoria, that supports a wide range of research initiatives and cares for > 6 million biological specimens.
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