HSANZ Free Communications 11: Pre-clinical cell biology and novel diagnostic approaches
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HSANZ
| Tuesday, October 20, 2026 |
| 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM |
| 515 |
Speaker
Dr Aroonima Misra
Scientist
Indian Council of Medical Research
Novel dried blood spots protocol enable qualitative fusion transcript detection in leukemia: proof-of-concept validation with long-term frozen biobanking
2:00 PM - 2:15 PMBiography
Scientist at ICMR–NICHR, New Delhi, India, specialising in haemato-oncology, holds an MD Pathology and fellowship in Hemato-Oncology from Tata Medical Centre. A recipient of the ISLH-Berend-Houwen Award and the Harold Gunson Best Oral Paper Award, she has over 69 PubMed-indexed publications and holds two patents in leukemia diagnostics.
Ms Tamia Nguyen
Medical Scientist/phd Candidate
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Next-generation-sequencing-based UBTF tandem duplication measurable residual disease (UBTF-MRD) in patients with MDS and AML
2:15 PM - 2:30 PMBiography
Tamia Nguyen is a medical scientist and PhD student at Molecular Pathology department at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.
Dr Aditya Tedjaseputra
Molecular Haematologist
King's College London
Post-induction MRD in NPM1 AML by molecular methods: a cross-validation ultra-sensitive NGS vs. RT-qPCR study from the UK NCRI AML17 trial
2:30 PM - 2:45 PMBiography
Adi is an early-career haematologist with subspecialty interest in multi-omic diagnostics and MRD medicine. Following completion of his HSANZ Clinical Fellowship at King's College London, he has returned to Melbourne and currently serves as a molecular haematologist at the Alfred and Austin Health.
Prof Sanjeev Kumar Gupta
Professor
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) New Delhi
Role of whole transcriptome sequencing and artificial intelligence in subtyping of B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) in an Indian cohort
2:45 PM - 3:00 PMBiography
Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Gupta is Professor of Laboratory Oncology at AIIMS, New Delhi, with training in hematopathology. He is an award-winning researcher with extensive work in genomic characterization of B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, including copy number alterations, molecular genetics, MRD, targeted and whole transcriptome sequencing, and has over 58 publications.
Prof Daniel Thomas
Consultant Haematologist
Adelaide University
TET2 Loss in human monocytes and macrophages drives inflammasome activation and promotes clonal expansion in CMML
3:00 PM - 3:15 PMBiography
Ms Sarah Clarke
Phd Student
University of Western Australia
Multiparametric immuno-flowFISH enables sensitive detection of IGH rearrangements in multiple myeloma without plasma cell enrichment
3:15 PM - 3:30 PMBiography
Sarah Clarke is a PhD student at the University of Western Australia, specialising in haematological analysis of multiple myeloma, with particular focus on chromosomal abnormalities and advanced detection methods. Her work involves using imaging flow cytometry to detect critical genetic lesions in plasma cells.
Dr Imogen Caldwell
Haematologist
Auckland City Hospital
Chairperson
Biography
Dr Ing Soo Tiong
Haematologist
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Chairperson
Biography
Dr Ing Soo Tiong is a clinical and laboratory haematologist at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Royal Melbourne Hospital, where his work integrates molecular diagnostics with the care of patients with acute leukaemia and myeloid neoplasms. He led the VALDAC trial of MRD-directed therapy in AML and serves on the European LeukemiaNet AML MRD Working Group.
