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Role Team Leader / Clinical Research Fellow
Group Cancer Therapies
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

  • Whitlam, JB, Ling, L, Swain, M, Harrington, T, Mirochnik, O, Brooks, I, Cronin, S, Challis, J, Petrovic, V, Bruno, DL, et al. Use of ubiquitous, highly heterozygous copy number variants and digital droplet polymerase chain reaction to monitor chimerism after allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation.. Exp Hematol 49: 39 -47.e5 2017
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  • Tripaydonis, A, Craig, L, Ludlow, LE, Cheung, M, Mechinaud, F, Ritchie, D, Elliot, D, Conyers, R. Building a Targeted Approach to Assess Risk of Anthracycline Induced Cardiomyopathy Amongst Paediatric Cancer Patients. Blood 128(22) : 5280 2016
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  • Tripaydonis, A, Conyers, R. Adolescent survivor of childhood Acute Myeloid Leukaemia undertakes pregnancy with a severe anthracycline induced cardiomyopathy and risk taking behaviours. Case Reports in Internal Medicine 3(4) : 64 -64 2016
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  • White, VM, Bibby, H, Green, M, Anazodo, A, Nicholls, W, Pinkerton, R, Phillips, M, Harrup, R, Osborn, M, Orme, LM, et al. Inconsistencies and time delays in site-specific research approvals hinder collaborative clinical research in Australia.. Intern Med J 46(9) : 1023 -1029 2016
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  • Wang, SS, Conyers, RK. Pediatric hypereosinophilia: FIP1L1-PDGFRA myeloproliferative disease in a 14-year-old male. Case Reports in Internal Medicine 3(2) : 2016
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