TRIALS IN TREATING STIs, VACCINES AND LIPID LOWERING MEDICATIONS
Dr Pi Lip Seet,
Principal Investigator
Paratus Clinical, Brisbane &
Surgical Registrar
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
RESEARCHER PROFILE
Filmed in Brisbane | March 2026
Dr Pi Lip Seet graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, after completing a Bachelor of Biomedical Science at the University of Newcastle. He has undertaken broad hospital-based training across Queensland and the ACT, with clinical experience in Emergency Medicine, General and Orthopaedic Surgery, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Intensive Care and Coronary Care.
Since joining Paratus Clinical Research in 2022, Dr Seet has served as both Principal Investigator and Sub-Investigator across Phase I–IV industry-sponsored clinical trials. His research experience spans vaccines, immunology, cardiovascular and endocrine disease, respiratory medicine, gastroenterology, pain management, sleep medicine and adult psychiatry. He has been involved in multiple vaccine development programs, including RSV, influenza, COVID-19, herpes zoster and pneumococcal studies.
Dr Seet maintains current Good Clinical Practice certification and advanced life support training. With a strong foundation in acute and procedural medicine, he is committed to delivering high-quality, ethical clinical research, ensuring participant safety while supporting the advancement of innovative therapeutic and vaccine programs.
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Hormone receptor positive breast cancer and therapy resistance
Prof Elgene Lim is a medical oncologist at St Vincent’s Hospital and Head of the Connie Johnson Breast Cancer Research Lab at the Garvan Institute. Following his PhD at the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute where he identified the aberrant cells in carriers of the BRCA1 mutant gene, a hereditary breast cancer syndrome as the culprit cells giving rise to breast cancer, he furthered his research and clinical training at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. He was awarded the National Breast Cancer Foundation Practitioner Fellowship in 2014 and returned from Boston to Australia. In 2017, he was awarded the inaugural National Breast Cancer Foundation Endowed Chair, and subsequently appointed the Principal Cancer Theme Lead at UNSW.
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Cellular interactions responsible for development, maintenance, and strength of the skeleton
Professor Sims directs the Bone Cell Biology and Disease Unit at St. Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research and is a Professorial Fellow at The University of Melbourne and Australian Catholic University.
She leads a team who studies the cellular interactions responsible for development, maintenance, and strength of the skeleton. She completed her PhD at the University of Adelaide, followed by postdoctoral work at the Garvan Institute in Sydney then at Yale School of Medicine, in New Haven, Connecticut, where she studied the role of the estrogen receptor in regulating bone structure.
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Professor Ramon Shaban
PROFESSOR RAMON SHABAN, CLINICAL CHAIR
COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL AND INFECTION PREVENTION
WESTERN HEALTH PRECINCT, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
