Dr Marcel Batten

Program Manager

Swarbrick Lab

Dr Marcel Batten is the Cancer Ecosystems Program Manager as well as Project Manager for the Swarbrick Lab, including supporting the Breast Cancer Atlas Consortium. Marcel has a PhD and significant experience in immunology and immuno-oncology research. She undertook postdoctoral training at Genentech Inc., San Francisco, before becoming a Laboratory Head in Immunology the Garvan Institute, and later, Immuno-Oncology Researcher with the Melanoma Institute Australia. Her expertise centres on characterisation of novel immune signalling mediators and optimisation of adaptive immune responses. She has served in a project management capacity with the Clinical Immunogenomics Research Consortium Australia, The University of Sydney Cancer Research Network, and the University of Sydney Research Networks Office.