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Role Team Leader / Clinical Research Fellow
Research area Stem Cell Medicine
A/Prof Rachel Conyers is a clinician scientist who trained in Paediatric Oncology with specialisation in leukaemia, lymphoma and bone marrow transplantation. She is the current clinical lead of Bone Marrow Transplantation at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne; and the Team Leader of Pharmacogenomics and recipient of Clinician Scientist Fellowship (since 2016) at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She is a recognised national leader in pharmacogenomics and rare toxicities as demonstrated by her position as the lead for Pharmacogenomics implementation and discovery through the Victorian Paediatric Cancer Consortium (VPCC) and co-chair of pharmacogenomics working group in the Zero Childhood Cancer Program.

A/Prof Conyers has independently attained funding towards the establishment of the Australian Cardio Oncology Registry and Biobank and its associated research studies and more recently, the Pharmacogenomics program. This is demonstrated by $3.2M of MRFF, NHMRC, government and philanthropic funding (CIA), with an additional $10.7M funding as CIC, CID, CIG. She has published 67 articles to date (1240 citations, 16 h-index,) with a > 1 field weighted citation impact (SCOPUS) for Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacogenetics (3.2) and Cardiotoxicity (1.2).

A/Prof Conyers’s international leadership in pharmacogenetics and rare toxicities is demonstrated by her position as principal investigator of cardiac toxicity working groups for Ponte De Legno Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia Working Group (Europe) and contribution to the Cardiovascular Task Force for Children’s Oncology Group (US). As Team Leader of Pharmacogenetics at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, she leads a talented multi-disciplinary team with a program of work in discovery and implementation of pharmacogenomics.

A/Prof Conyers has further developed her leadership skills by studies at Melbourne Business School Leadership in Health Care (Scholarship Recipient Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre), participation in a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) at Melbourne Business School with a Deans Commendation (Business Strategy, 2021), and completion of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administration Leadership for Clinicians Program (2021, AFRACMA).
A/Prof Rachel Conyers is a clinician scientist who trained in Paediatric Oncology with specialisation in leukaemia, lymphoma and bone marrow transplantation. She is the current clinical lead of Bone Marrow Transplantation at The Royal Children’s...
A/Prof Rachel Conyers is a clinician scientist who trained in Paediatric Oncology with specialisation in leukaemia, lymphoma and bone marrow transplantation. She is the current clinical lead of Bone Marrow Transplantation at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne; and the Team Leader of Pharmacogenomics and recipient of Clinician Scientist Fellowship (since 2016) at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She is a recognised national leader in pharmacogenomics and rare toxicities as demonstrated by her position as the lead for Pharmacogenomics implementation and discovery through the Victorian Paediatric Cancer Consortium (VPCC) and co-chair of pharmacogenomics working group in the Zero Childhood Cancer Program.

A/Prof Conyers has independently attained funding towards the establishment of the Australian Cardio Oncology Registry and Biobank and its associated research studies and more recently, the Pharmacogenomics program. This is demonstrated by $3.2M of MRFF, NHMRC, government and philanthropic funding (CIA), with an additional $10.7M funding as CIC, CID, CIG. She has published 67 articles to date (1240 citations, 16 h-index,) with a > 1 field weighted citation impact (SCOPUS) for Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacogenetics (3.2) and Cardiotoxicity (1.2).

A/Prof Conyers’s international leadership in pharmacogenetics and rare toxicities is demonstrated by her position as principal investigator of cardiac toxicity working groups for Ponte De Legno Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia Working Group (Europe) and contribution to the Cardiovascular Task Force for Children’s Oncology Group (US). As Team Leader of Pharmacogenetics at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, she leads a talented multi-disciplinary team with a program of work in discovery and implementation of pharmacogenomics.

A/Prof Conyers has further developed her leadership skills by studies at Melbourne Business School Leadership in Health Care (Scholarship Recipient Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre), participation in a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) at Melbourne Business School with a Deans Commendation (Business Strategy, 2021), and completion of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administration Leadership for Clinicians Program (2021, AFRACMA).

Top Publications

  • Shanthikumar, S, Colenutt, S, Mechinaud, F, Cole, T, Conyers, R, Harrison, J, Robinson, P, Haeusler, G. Clinical Utility of Bronchoalveolar Lavage in Pediatric Oncology Patients. a6336 -a6336 2020
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  • White, VM, Orme, LM, Skaczkowski, G, Pinkerton, R, Coory, M, Osborn, M, Bibby, H, Nicholls, W, Conyers, R, Phillips, MB, et al. Management of Sarcoma in Adolescents and Young Adults: An Australian Population-Based Study. Journal of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology 8(3) : 272 -280 2019
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  • Tripaydonis, A, Conyers, R, Elliott, DA. Pediatric Anthracycline‐Induced Cardiotoxicity: Mechanisms, Pharmacogenomics, and Pluripotent Stem‐Cell Modeling. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics 105(3) : 614 -624 2019
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  • Gayden, T, Sepulveda, FE, Khuong-Quang, D-A, Pratt, J, Valera, ET, Garrigue, A, Kelso, S, Sicheri, F, Mikael, LG, Hamel, N, et al. Author Correction: Germline HAVCR2 mutations altering TIM-3 characterize subcutaneous panniculitis-like T cell lymphomas with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytic syndrome. Nature Genetics 51(1) : 196 -196 2019
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  • Foulkes, S, Costello, B, Howden, E, Elliott, D, Conyers, R, La Gerche, A. Exercise Cardiac MRI Unmasks Cardiac Dysfunction in Childhood and Adolescent Cancer Survivors with Reduced Cardiopulmonary Fitness. Heart Lung and Circulation 28: s135 2019
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