Dr Ira Deveson

Dr Ira Deveson is a mid-career researcher with expertise in clinical genomics, biotechnology development & bioinformatics. He leads Garvan’s Genomic Technologies research lab, with a current focus on applications of long-read sequencing in clinical genomics. His work spans from computational methods development and software/hardware engineering, to large-scale genomic analysis of diverse cohorts in health and disease.

Dr Ira Deveson graduated with a Bachelor of Philosophy from the Australian National University in 2012. He completed a PhD at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research from 2014-2017, supervised by Prof John Mattick and Dr Tim Mercer. Dr Deveson's PhD focused on genome/transcriptome research and bioinformatics, and earned him recognition with the JD Catcheside prize from the Genomics Society of Australasia.

Dr Deveson was awarded an Early Career Fellowship from the Cancer Institute NSW (2018) and a prestigious NHMRC Investigator Grant (2020). He was appointed as Head of Garvan's Genomic Technologies Lab in 2020 and has since been awarded multiple significant MRFF grants to support his work on long-read sequencing technology development. In addition to his research role, Dr Deveson leads the Long-read Sequencing Team within Garvan’s Sequencing Platform.