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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
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
External positions
Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne
1 Jan 2019 → …
Senior Honorary Research Associate, Cancer Council Victoria
1 Jan 2013 → …
Research area keywords
- Precision Medicine
- Oncology
- Familial Cancer
- Epidemiology
- Genomics
- Biobanking
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Australian Marrow Failure Biobank
Southey, M., Wood, E., Tsimiklis, H., Shortt, J., McQuilten, Z., Fox, V. & Waters, N.
1/07/21 → 30/06/24
Project: Research
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Population genomic screening of young adults to prevent cancer in Australia
Lacaze, P., McNeil, J., Zalcberg, J., Thomas, D., Milne, R., James, P., Delatycki, M., Young, M., Nowak, K., Nguyen, T., Southey, M., Winship, I. M., Ademi Delaney, Z., Tiller, J., Bruinsma, F., Riaz, M., Terrill, B., Kirk, J., Tucker, K. L. & Andrews, L.
1/07/21 → 30/06/25
Project: Research
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The Victorian Paediatric Cancer Consortium: A Multi-institutional Partnership to Catalyze Advances in Childhood Cancer Research and Clinical Implementation
Firestein, R., Eisenstat, D. D., Conyers, R. K., Downie, P., Hansford, J., Rosenbluh, S., McCarthy, M., Cain, J., Jenkins, M. R., Danaher, T., Wong, L., Southey, M., Powell, D., Daly, R., Khuong-Quang, D., Ekert, P. G., Lunke, S., Carleton, B. C., Neeson, P. & Carder, J.
1/07/21 → 30/06/24
Project: Research
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First international workshop of the ATM and cancer risk group (4-5 December 2019)
Lesueur, F., Easton, D. F., Renault, A. L., Tavtigian, S. V., Bernstein, J. L., Kote-Jarai, Z., Eeles, R. A., Plaseska-Karanfia, D., Feliubadaló, L., on behalf of Spanish ATM working group, Arun, B., Herold, N., Versmold, B., Schmutzler, R. K., on behalf of GC-HBOC, Nguyen-Dumont, T., Southey, M. C., Dorling, L., Dunning, A. M., Ghiorzo, P. & 12 others, , Apr 2022, In: Familial Cancer. 21, 2, p. 211-227 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Alcohol consumption is associated with widespread changes in blood DNA methylation: Analysis of cross-sectional and longitudinal data
Dugué, P-A., Wilson, R., Lehne, B., Jayasekara, H., Wang, X., Jung, C. H., Joo, J. H. E., Makalic, E., Schmidt, D. F., Baglietto, L., Severi, G., Gieger, C., Ladwig, K. H., Peters, A., Kooner, J. S., Southey, M. C., English, D. R., Waldenberger, M., Chambers, J. C., Giles, G. G. & 1 others, , Jan 2021, In: Addiction Biology. 26, 1, 13 p., e12855.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Ambient temperature and genome-wide DNA methylation: A twin and family study in Australia
Xu, R., Li, S., Li, S., Wong, E. M., Southey, M. C., Hopper, J. L., Abramson, M. J. & Guo, Y., 15 Sep 2021, In: Environmental Pollution. 285, 12 p., 117700.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Androgens alter the heterogeneity of small extracellular vesicles and the small RNA cargo in prostate cancer
Martens-Uzunova, E. S., Kusuma, G. D., Crucitta, S., Lim, H. K., Cooper, C., Riches, J. E., Azad, A., Ochiya, T., Boyle, G. M., Southey, M. C., Del Re, M., Lim, R., Ramm, G. A., Jenster, G. W. & Soekmadji, C., Aug 2021, In: Journal of Extracellular Vesicles. 10, 10, 21 p., e12136.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access2 Citations (Scopus) -
A polygenic risk score predicts incident prostate cancer risk in older men but does not select for clinically significant disease
Bakshi, A., Riaz, M., Orchard, S. G., Carr, P. R., Joshi, A. D., Cao, Y., Rebello, R., Nguyen-Dumont, T., Southey, M. C., Millar, J. L., Gately, L., Gibbs, P., Ford, L. G., Parnes, H. L., Chan, A. T., McNeil, J. J. & Lacaze, P., 2 Nov 2021, In: Cancers. 13, 22, 12 p., 5815.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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