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Melissa Southey

Professor

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6313-9005

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1990 …2023
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Biography

Professor Melissa C. Southey, BSc (Hons, Pathology) PhD (Medicine), GradDip (Law), is a molecular geneticist (FHGSA) and a Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Science, Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (FFSc, RCPA). She is Chair of Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Director of Monash University’s new Biobanking Victoria initiative, based at the Monash Health Translation Precinct and Research Director of the Monash Partners Comprehensive Cancer Consortium.

Professor Southey’s research program has a population-based focus that has been pivotal to the establishment of large genetic epidemiological research resources that are now being utilized to address key questions in cancer research.  Melissa is best known for her work with multiple-case cancer families and heritable risk factors that has provided the evidence base for best practice guidelines for the clinical management of individuals at high risk of the disease.

Professor Southey has led multidisciplinary teams in diagnostic and research settings in Australia and internationally, supported by programmatic awards from the European Commission, the National Institutes of Health (USA), NHMRC and The National Breast Cancer Foundation. She has co-authored more than 520 peer reviewed publications and has been namedin the Clarivate 2018 Highly Cited Researchers, ranking in the top 1% of researchers over the last 10 years.  She actively participates on a number of national and international scientific advisory, governance and editorial bodies.

Biography

Please see Southeylab.org

External positions

Honorary Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne

1 Jan 2019 → …

Senior Honorary Research Associate, Cancer Council Victoria

1 Jan 2013 → …

Keywords

  • Precision Medicine
  • Oncology
  • Familial Cancer
  • Epidemiology
  • Genomics
  • Biobanking

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Projects 2015 2023

Using next generation sequencing technology to improve the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer

Croagh, D., Southey, M., Jenkins, B., Segelov, E., Rathi, V., Holt, B. A., Pilgrim, C., Bhutani, M. & Tagkalidis, P.

Victorian Cancer Agency

15/02/19 → 14/02/23

Project: Research

Precision Medicine for Prostate and Breast Cancer

Southey, M.

1/01/19 → 31/12/23

Project: Research

Creating Biobanking Victoria Precision Medicine Services to Support Clinical Trials, Therapeutic Development, and Disease Diagnostics and Monitoring

Southey, M.

Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources (VIC)

1/11/18 → 30/11/20

Project: Other

Application of a multi-gene prostate circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) panel in men with metastatic hormone- sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC)

Southey, M., Kwan, E., Fettke, H. C. & Azad, A.

ANZUP Cancer Trials Group

4/09/18 → 3/09/19

Project: Research

Taking Breast Cancer Risk Prediction to the Next Level and Making it Accessible

Hopper, J. L., Allman, R., Milne, R. L., Winship, I. M., James, P. A. & Southey, M.

1/01/18 → 31/12/22

Project: Research

Research Output 1990 2019

Autologous platelet-rich plasma for healing chronic venous leg ulcers: Clinical efficacy and potential mechanisms

Weller, C. D., Gardiner, E. E., Arthur, J. F., Southey, M. & Andrews, R. K., 1 Jan 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : International Wound Journal. 5 p.

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Benign breast disease increases breast cancer risk independent of underlying familial risk profile: Findings from a Prospective Family Study Cohort

Zeinomar, N., Phillips, K. A., Daly, M. B., Milne, R. L., Dite, G. S., MacInnis, R. J., Liao, Y., Kehm, R. D., Knight, J. A., Southey, M. C., Chung, W. K., Giles, G. G., McLachlan, S. A., Friedlander, M. L., Weideman, P. C., Glendon, G., Nesci, S., kConFab Investigators, Andrulis, I. L., Buys, S. S. & 3 othersJohn, E. M., Hopper, J. L. & Terry, M. B., 1 Jan 2019, In : International Journal of Cancer. 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

Discovery of common and rare genetic risk variants for colorectal cancer

Huyghe, J. R., Bien, S. A., Harrison, T. A., Kang, H. M., Chen, S., Schmit, S. L., Conti, D. V., Qu, C., Jeon, J., Edlund, C. K., Greenside, P., Wainberg, M., Schumacher, F. R., Smith, J. D., Levine, D. M., Nelson, S. C., Sinnott-Armstrong, N. A., Albanes, D., Alonso, M. H., Anderson, K. & 179 othersArnau-Collell, C., Arndt, V., Bamia, C., Banbury, B. L., Baron, J. A., Berndt, S. I., Bézieau, S., Bishop, D. T., Boehm, J., Boeing, H., Brenner, H., Brezina, S., Buch, S., Buchanan, D. D., Burnett-Hartman, A., Butterbach, K., Caan, B. J., Campbell, P. T., Carlson, C. S., Castellví-Bel, S., Chan, A. T., Chang-Claude, J., Chanock, S. J., Chirlaque, M. D., Cho, S. H., Connolly, C. M., Cross, A. J., Cuk, K., Curtis, K. R., de la Chapelle, A., Doheny, K. F., Duggan, D., Easton, D. F., Elias, S. G., Elliott, F., English, D. R., Feskens, E. J. M., Figueiredo, J. C., Fischer, R., FitzGerald, L. M., Forman, D., Gala, M., Gallinger, S., Gauderman, W. J., Giles, G. G., Gillanders, E., Gong, J., Goodman, P. J., Grady, W. M., Grove, J. S., Gsur, A., Gunter, M. J., Haile, R. W., Hampe, J., Hampel, H., Harlid, S., Hayes, R. B., Hofer, P., Hoffmeister, M., Hopper, J. L., Hsu, W. L., Huang, W. Y., Hudson, T. J., Hunter, D. J., Ibañez-Sanz, G., Idos, G. E., Ingersoll, R., Jackson, R. D., Jacobs, E. J., Jenkins, M. A., Joshi, A. D., Joshu, C. E., Keku, T. O., Key, T. J., Kim, H. R., Kobayashi, E., Kolonel, L. N., Kooperberg, C., Kühn, T., Küry, S., Kweon, S. S., Larsson, S. C., Laurie, C. A., Le Marchand, L., Leal, S. M., Lee, S. C., Lejbkowicz, F., Lemire, M., Li, C. I., Li, L., Lieb, W., Lin, Y., Lindblom, A., Lindor, N. M., Ling, H., Louie, T. L., Männistö, S., Markowitz, S. D., Martín, V., Masala, G., McNeil, C. E., Melas, M., Milne, R. L., Moreno, L., Murphy, N., Myte, R., Naccarati, A., Newcomb, P. A., Offit, K., Ogino, S., Onland-Moret, N. C., Pardini, B., Parfrey, P. S., Pearlman, R., Perduca, V., Pharoah, P. D. P., Pinchev, M., Platz, E. A., Prentice, R. L., Pugh, E., Raskin, L., Rennert, G., Rennert, H. S., Riboli, E., Rodríguez-Barranco, M., Romm, J., Sakoda, L. C., Schafmayer, C., Schoen, R. E., Seminara, D., Shah, M., Shelford, T., Shin, M. H., Shulman, K., Sieri, S., Slattery, M. L., Southey, M. C., Stadler, Z. K., Stegmaier, C., Su, Y. R., Tangen, C. M., Thibodeau, S. N., Thomas, D. C., Thomas, S. S., Toland, A. E., Trichopoulou, A., Ulrich, C. M., Van Den Berg, D. J., van Duijnhoven, F. J. B., Van Guelpen, B., van Kranen, H., Vijai, J., Visvanathan, K., Vodicka, P., Vodickova, L., Vymetalkova, V., Weigl, K., Weinstein, S. J., White, E., Win, A. K., Wolf, C. R., Wolk, A., Woods, M. O., Wu, A. H., Zaidi, S. H., Zanke, B. W., Zhang, Q., Zheng, W., Scacheri, P. C., Potter, J. D., Bassik, M. C., Kundaje, A., Casey, G., Moreno, V., Abecasis, G. R., Nickerson, D. A., Gruber, S. B., Hsu, L. & Peters, U., 1 Jan 2019, In : Nature Genetics. 51, 1, p. 76-87+e 15 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

Genome-wide association study of germline variants and breast cancer-specific mortality

Escala-Garcia, M., Guo, Q., Dörk, T., Canisius, S., Keeman, R., Dennis, J., Beesley, J., Lecarpentier, J., Bolla, M. K., Wang, Q., Abraham, J., Andrulis, I. L., Anton-Culver, H., Arndt, V., Auer, P. L., Beckmann, M. W., Behrens, S., Benitez, J., Bermisheva, M., Bernstein, L. & 217 othersBlomqvist, C., Boeckx, B., Bojesen, S. E., Bonanni, B., Børresen-Dale, A. L., Brauch, H., Brenner, H., Brentnall, A., Brinton, L., Broberg, P., Brock, I. W., Brucker, S. Y., Burwinkel, B., Caldas, C., Caldés, T., Campa, D., Canzian, F., Carracedo, A., Carter, B. D., Castelao, J. E., Chang-Claude, J., Chanock, S. J., Chenevix-Trench, G., Cheng, T. Y. D., Chin, S. F., Clarke, C. L., NBCS Collaborators, Cordina-Duverger, E., Couch, F. J., Cox, D. G., Cox, A., Cross, S. S., Czene, K., Daly, M. B., Devilee, P., Dunn, J. A., Dunning, A. M., Durcan, L., Dwek, M., Earl, H. M., Ekici, A. B., Eliassen, A. H., Ellberg, C., Engel, C., Eriksson, M., Evans, D. G., Figueroa, J., Flesch-Janys, D., Flyger, H., Gabrielson, M., Gago-Dominguez, M., Galle, E., Gapstur, S. M., García-Closas, M., García-Sáenz, J. A., Gaudet, M. M., George, A., Georgoulias, V., Giles, G. G., Glendon, G., Goldgar, D. E., González-Neira, A., Alnæs, G. I. G., Grip, M., Guénel, P., Haeberle, L., Hahnen, E., Haiman, C. A., Håkansson, N., Hall, P., Hamann, U., Hankinson, S., Harkness, E. F., Harrington, P. A., Hart, S. N., Hartikainen, J. M., Hein, A., Hillemanns, P., Hiller, L., Holleczek, B., Hollestelle, A., Hooning, M. J., Hoover, R. N., Hopper, J. L., Howell, A., Huang, G., Humphreys, K., Hunter, D. J., Janni, W., John, E. M., Jones, M. E., Jukkola-Vuorinen, A., Jung, A., Kaaks, R., Kabisch, M., Kaczmarek, K., Kerin, M. J., Khan, S., Khusnutdinova, E., Kiiski, J. I., Kitahara, C. M., Knight, J. A., Ko, Y. D., Koppert, L. B., Kosma, V. M., Kraft, P., Kristensen, V. N., Krüger, U., Kühl, T., Lambrechts, D., Le Marchand, L., Lee, E., Lejbkowicz, F., Li, L., Lindblom, A., Lindström, S., Linet, M., Lissowska, J., Lo, W. Y., Loibl, S., Lubiński, J., Lux, M. P., MacInnis, R. J., Maierthaler, M., Maishman, T., Makalic, E., Mannermaa, A., Manoochehri, M., Manoukian, S., Margolin, S., Martinez, M. E., Mavroudis, D., McLean, C., Meindl, A., Middha, P., Miller, N., Milne, R. L., Moreno, F., Mulligan, A. M., Mulot, C., Nassir, R., Neuhausen, S. L., Newman, W. T., Nielsen, S. F., Nordestgaard, B. G., Norman, A., Olsson, H., Orr, N., Pankratz, V. S., Park-Simon, T. W., Perez, J. I. A., Pérez-Barrios, C., Peterlongo, P., Petridis, C., Pinchev, M., Prajzendanc, K., Prentice, R., Presneau, N., Prokofieva, D., Pylkäs, K., Rack, B., Radice, P., Ramachandran, D., Rennert, G., Rennert, H. S., Rhenius, V., Romero, A., Roylance, R., Saloustros, E., Sawyer, E. J., Schmidt, D. F., Schmutzler, R. K., Schneeweiss, A., Schoemaker, M. J., Schumacher, F., Schwentner, L., Scott, R. J., Scott, C., Seynaeve, C., Shah, M., Simard, J., Smeets, A., Sohn, C., Southey, M. C., Swerdlow, A. J., Talhouk, A., Tamimi, R. M., Tapper, W. J., Teixeira, M. R., Tengström, M., Terry, M. B., Thöne, K., Tollenaar, R. A. E. M., Tomlinson, I., Torres, D., Truong, T., Turman, C., Turnbull, C., Ulmer, H. U., Untch, M., Vachon, C., van Asperen, C. J., van den Ouweland, A. M. W., van Veen, E. M., Wendt, C., Whittemore, A. S., Willett, W., Winqvist, R., Wolk, A., Yang, X. R., Zhang, Y., Easton, D. F., Fasching, P. A., Nevanlinna, H., Eccles, D. M., Pharoah, P. D. P. & Schmidt, M. K., 1 Jan 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : British Journal of Cancer. 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

Open Access

Genome-wide association study of peripheral blood DNA methylation and conventional mammographic density measures

Li, S., Dugué, P. A., Baglietto, L., Severi, G., Wong, E. M., Nguyen, T. L., Stone, J., English, D. R., Southey, M. C., Giles, G. G., Hopper, J. L. & Milne, R. L., 1 Jan 2019, In : International Journal of Cancer. 6 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review