Geraldine O'Neill
Geraldine O’Neill is Head of The Children’s Cancer Research Unit (CCRU) at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Conjoint Professor of Cancer Cell Biology at the University of Sydney and Group Leader of the Functionally Applied Biology lab. She completed her PhD at the Kolling Institute of Medical Research, University of Sydney and undertook post-doctoral training at Fox Chase Cancer Centre, Philadelphia USA. She returned to Australia as an NHMRC Howard Florey post-doctoral research fellow. Subsequently, as the NSW Cancer Council Career Development Fellow, she established her program of cancer cell biology at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead. As head of CCRU she oversees translational research programs spanning Advanced Cellular Therapeutics, Advanced Molecular Diagnostics and Molecular Genomics. Her own research bridges insights from cancer cell biology, tissue engineering and biophysics to yield comprehensive understanding of the extracellular contributions to cancer development and response to therapy. She has elucidated fundamental mechanisms of cancer cell interaction with the tumour microenvironment and applies these insights to developing better preclinical cancer models.
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