LYMPHOMA, MYELOMA AND GENOMICS
Professor Dipti Talaulikar
Senior Consultant in Clinical and Laboratory Haematologist,
Canberra Health Services, Australia &
ANU School of Medicine and Psychology, The Australian National University
Canberra, Australia
RESEARCHER PROFILE
Filmed in Canberra, Australia | November 2025
Professor Dipti Talaulikar is a clinical and laboratory haematologist with expertise in genomics, working at Canberra Health Services, and Professor at ANU. She has a clinical and research interest in lymphoma, myeloma and genomics, and has authored close to 100 peer reviewed papers, including several clinical guidelines that have had a significant impact on clinical practice.
Professor Talaulikar is an inclusive and innovative educator, having been involved with teaching medical students since the inception of the ANU Medical School, and has won 5 awards including the Vice Chancellor awards for teaching and education.
Her conviction, that knowledge has to be linked with community work, has led her to develop The Link program at ANU, with a focus on sharing knowledge across boundaries. She is passionate about gender equity and has developed the Link and Grow Mentoring Program for diverse women in health and medicine.
She is the President branch of ASMOF (Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation) and the chair of the Gender Equity Group in Federal ASMOF.
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Life-changing donor milk for preterm babies
Dr Laura Klein is National Milk Research Leader at Australian Red Cross Lifeblood. Australian Red Cross Lifeblood is funded by Australian governments to provide life-giving blood, plasma, and transplantation and biological products.
Dr Klein works with clinicians and researchers across Australia to understand how donated breast milk can be used to improve outcomes for vulnerable babies. She’s passionate about generating evidence to improve the products and services that milk banks provide to donors and the families who receive donated breast milk.
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Mental wellbeing in rural and regional communities dealing with environmental challenges
Associate Professor Suzie Cosh is a psychologist and clinical researcher. Her work focuses on the intersection of climate change and mental health and she currently leads a body of work that focuses on supporting small rural communities to recover from and prepare for extreme weather events such as bushfires, floods and droughts.
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Next-generation NK cell-based immunotherapies for hard-to-treat cancers
Associate Professor Fernando Guimaraes is an internationally recognised leader in cancer immunotherapy and natural killer (NK) cell biology. Based at The University of Queensland, he leads innovative research focused on developing next-generation NK cell-based immunotherapies for hard-to-treat cancers, including sarcomas and neuroblastoma.
