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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Junior Fellowship to develop vaccine for bacteria that cause ear infections
Dr Erin Brazel has a background in molecular and translational microbiology, with a focus on developing new ways of preventing and treating bacterial diseases. Recently Dr Brazel has been awarded a Junior Fellowship by the Passe & Williams Memorial Foundation.
The fellowship enables outstanding individuals to obtain postdoctoral training under the supervision of an experienced clinical or scientific researcher, with the view to establishing a research career in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery in Australia and/or New Zealand.
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Cellular mechanisms of traumatic brain injury & concussion
Professor Melinda Fitzgerald is Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research at Curtin University, John Curtin Distinguished Professor and CEO of Connectivity Traumatic Brain Injury Australia.
She has published over 135 papers; recent highlights include Lancet Neurology, J Neuroscience, Nature Nano, ACS Nano, Biomaterials. Currently held grants/Projects total $10.1 million; CIA for $5.2 million of these; $18.5 million total research and equipment funding, $9.9 million as CIA; continuous category 1 grant funding as CIA since 2009.
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Metabolic phenotyping, lipidomics & bioinformatics in dementia
Dr Luke Whiley is a dementia researcher whose work focuses on understanding how the body’s metabolism, particularly the biology of fats known as lipids, influences our health throughout ageing.
His research explores how the body responds to illness, lifestyle, and environmental stress at a chemical level, and how these responses shape longterm disease risk. Using advanced blood-based measurement technologies, Dr Whiley studies thousands of small molecules at once to build a snapshot of a person’s metabolic health. By combining these measurements with data science approaches, his work identifies biological pathways that become disrupted in disease, providing insight into why some people are more vulnerable to conditions such as dementia.
