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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Enhancing occupational therapy service provision with military veterans
Prof McKinstry was instrumental in the development of the occupational therapy course at the La Trobe University’s Bendigo campus and also the establishment of the Rural Health School.
Prof McKinstry’s research focus is on health workforce, particularly developing a sustainable rural health workforce through recruitment of rural students for health courses, innovative and flexible delivery of health courses, telehealth and emerging areas of practice for occupational therapists.
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Elite athlete physical and mental health impact performance
Understanding the interaction between genes and lifestyle factors in response to stress can lead to potential therapeutic interventions for stress-related disorders. This research is crucial for promoting health and well-being.
Professor Mehta has recently commenced research into elite athlete physical and mental health impact performance, with research at the intersection of statistics, genomics, and mental health. This research is ahead of, and in anticipation of, the Summer Olympics in Brisbane in 2032.
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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.
