NOVEL IMMUNOTHERAPIES IN LYMPHOMA
With
Dr Sean Harrop
Clinical Haematology Fellow
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre,
Melbourne, Australia
RESEARCHER PROFILE
Filmed in Melbourne, Australia | May 2025
Dr Sean Harrop is a dual-trained haematologist having completed his clinical and laboratory haematology training at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Royal Melbourne Hospital and St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne. He is the current clinical haematology fellow (aggressive lymphoma) at Peter MacCallum and a PhD student in the Cancer Immunology Program in the Neeson Lab.
He has research interests in novel immunotherapies in lymphoma, mechanisms that lead to immunotherapy resistance and the genetic mechanisms underlying the tumour microenvironment.
He has published in peer-reviewed journals, co-authored textbook chapters and presented at international conferences on clinical and translational research in lymphoma.
Dr Harrop’s upcoming PhD is funded by the Leukaemia Foundation, Haematology Society of Australia and New Zealand (HSANZ) and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.
Source: Supplied and adapted
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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.
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Paramedics in the Community
Dr Brendan Shannon is a registered paramedic and Head of Postgraduate Programs and Deputy Head of Department of Paramedicine at Monash University.
Brendan has a keen research interest in alternative care pathways, non-transport, referral services, paramedic practitioners and community paramedicine. His Doctoral research focused on investigating the experiences of health services when implementing alternative care pathways.
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Dr Zarina Greenberg
RESEARCH IN SANFILIPPO
@ SAHMRI
ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA
