Professor Vanessa Hayes
Position:
- Professor and Head , Human Comparative Genomics, The Garvan Institute of Medical Research
- Professor of Medical Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, California
- Conjoint Professor of Medicine, University of New South Wales
- Honorary Professor of Medical Sciences, University of Limpopo, South Africa
Biography:
Vanessa Hayes is Professor of Human Comparative Genomics at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research / The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, and Professor of Genomic Medicine at the J. Craig Venter Institute in San Diego.
She holds Adjunct/Honorary Professorships at the University of New South Wales and University of Limpopo in South Africa, while being a member of the Reducing Cancer Disparities Program at the University of California San Diego Moores Cancer Centre.
Prof Hayes’ work extends across the globe with a focus on defining the extent of human genome diversity and how this diversity impacts prostate cancer risk and disease outcomes.
Her interest in finding links to prostate cancer disparities globally led to her founding the Prostate Cancer Disparities Network (PCDN) in 2011, which includes researchers and studies from Australia, USA, and Africa. Her work has a particular focus on indigenous health, linking extreme phenotypes with genotypes, and gene-environment interactions. Her areas of expertise include human genomics, prostate cancer genetics, association studies, mitochondrial genomics, and population genetics.
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