PROF VANESSA HAYES

UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, AUSTRALIACAMBRIDGE, UK

Professor Hayes is the Petre Chair for Prostate Cancer Research at the University of Sydney, where she heads the Ancestry and Health Genomics Laboratory located within the Charles Perkins Centre. She also holds Honorary Professorships at the University of Pretoria in South Africa and at the Universities of Manchester and East Anglia in the United Kingdom. She is Director for the US DoD-funded HEROIC Prostate Cancer Precision Health (PCaPH) Africa1K Consortium and heads the ICGC pan Prostate Cancer Group (PPCG) Ancestry Disparity Working Group. Known for her contribution in generating the first global African Human and prostate tumour genomes, the Hayes Lab uses cutting-edge genomic technologies and big data analytics to provide insights into our earliest modern human history, define the extent of human genome diversity, while using this information to understand health and disease.