HSANZ Free Communications 6: Aggressive lymphoma
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HSANZ
| Tuesday, October 20, 2026 |
| 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
| 515 |
Speaker
Dr Fiona Swain
Haematologist
Princess Alexandra Hospital
Divergent T-cell trajectories distinguish refractory and late-relapse DLBCL: integrated profiling of paired diagnostic and relapse biopsies
8:30 AM - 8:45 AMBiography
Dr Fiona Swain is a clinical haematologist practising at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane and is lead of the CAR-T Cell Program. She is also completing a PhD in relapsed/refractory DLBCL in A/Prof Colm Keane's laboratory.
Dr Joshua WD Tobin
Co-Group Lead
Mater Research
Ibrutinib, rituximab, valaciclovir and third-party EBV-specific virus specific T-lymphocytes for EBV-positive immunosuppression-associated lymphoproliferative disorders: Results of the ALLG TREBL1 phase 1 investigator-initiated trial
8:45 AM - 9:00 AMBiography
Dr Joshua Tobin is a Staff Specialist Haematologist at Princess Alexandra Hospital and Co-Group Leader of the Blood Cancer Research Group at Mater Research Institute–UQ. His clinical and research focus is lymphoma, with a translational program centered on personalised immunotherapy development and biomarker-directed clinical trials.
Dr Zachary Hawula
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Queensland
Distinct immune checkpoint landscapes in PCNSL and SCNSL revealed by single-nucleus profiling
9:00 AM - 9:15 AMBiography
Dr Zachary Hawula is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Lymphoma Research Lab at the Frazer Institute. Having completed his PhD at QUT in 2021. Since begining his role in the Lymphoma Research Lab in 2022, Zachary is now focused on Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma and Secondary CNS Lymphoma.
Dr Cale Burge
Cellular Therapies Fellow
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Evolving bridging strategies for CD19 CAR T-cell therapy in aggressive B-cell lymphoma: a 7-year single-centre experience
9:15 AM - 9:30 AMBiography
Dr Cale Burge completed his Haematology training in Sydney Local Health District and South Western Sydney Local Health District in NSW and is currently the Cellular Therapies Fellow at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
Dr Melinda Burgess
Post Doc
Fraser Institute / University of Queensland / Princess Alexandra Hospital
Divergent immune ecosystems in immune-privileged diffuse large B-cell lymphomas
9:30 AM - 9:45 AMBiography
Melinda Burgess is a postdoctoral researcher at the Frazer Institute UQ and Princess Alexandra Hospital. She completed her PhD at Griffith University in 2024, investigating macrophage-mediated immune responses in CLL. Her current research focuses on the tumour immune microenvironment of B-cell lymphomas using integrated genomic, transcriptomic, single-cell, and spatial approaches.
Dr Sean McKeague
Haematologist
Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital
Incidence, predictors and impact of immune effector cell associated haematotoxicity (ICAHT) post Axi-cel for LBCL: An analysis from the AusCART consortium
9:45 AM - 10:00 AMBiography
Sean is an early career haematologist at the Royal Brisbane & Women's hospital with a clinical and research interest in lymphoma, CLL and CAR-T. He has a special interest in translational and clinical aspects of ICAHT post CAR-T.
Dr Rory Bennett
Haematologist
Health New Zealand Waitemata
Chairperson
Biography
Rory is a NZ and Aus-trained haematologist at North Shore and Waitakere hospitals in Auckland. He has special interest in clinical trials and research in lymphoid malignancies
Dr Leanne Berkahn
Haematologist
Auckland City Hospital
Chairperson
Biography
