Garvan's 2022 Breast Cancer Symposium

Prof Lindeman is Joint Head of the ACRF Cancer Biology and Stem Cells Division at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and a Consultant Medical Oncologist at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (Peter Mac) and the Royal Melbourne Hospital. His laboratory, jointly headed by Prof Jane Visvader, is working to understand how normal and cancerous cells develop in the breast. They are using this information to advance new treatments for breast cancer.

Prof Lindeman completed his medical training at the University of Sydney, followed by Medical Oncology training at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Westmead Hospital. Following this, he carried out PhD studies at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI), before undertaking Postdoctoral studies at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School. In 1997 he was recruited to WEHI by the Victorian Breast Cancer Research Consortium. He was concurrently appointed as a sessional medical oncologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital where he established the RMH Familial Cancer Centre and RMH Tissue Bank.