Dr Liesel FitzGerald
Position:
- Research Fellow, Cancer, Genetics and Immunology, University of Tasmania, Menzies Institute for Medical Research
Biography:
Dr FitzGerald obtained a PhD on the molecular genetics of familial prostate cancer from the University of Tasmania in 2007.
From late 2007 to 2011, she joined the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre as a post-doc for Dr Janet Stanford. Here she studied the genetics of both sporadic and familial prostate cancer, gaining additional experience in genetic epidemiology. In November 2012, Dr FitzGerald joined the Cancer Council Victoria as the inaugural David Hill Research Fellow, where she worked with Drs Giles and Severi on several prostate cancer projects. Dr FitzGerald has recently joined the Cancer, Genetics and Immunology group at the Menzies Institute for Medical Research. Here she will be working on both the familial and sporadic prostate cancer studies.
Dr FitzGerald’s main research focus is on the identification of genomic predictors for aggressive and fatal forms of prostate cancer. One of her main research projects focuses on utilising diagnostic tumour tissue to identify epigenetic and protein biomarkers that distinguish benign from fatal disease. Another project involves the assaying of HM450K arrays on prediagnostic blood samples to identify epigenetic markers of prostate cancer risk.
Genetics, Advanced disease, Prostate cancer mortality.
