Medical Genomics Facility

Professor Koks is the Facility Director and has a long history in medical genomics having a medical degree from Estonia and over 30 years' experience in complex medical genetics

Professor Mallal’s research continues to drive innovation at Murdoch University and Vanderbilt University, where he is a Professor of Medicine, Pathology, Microbiology, Immunology and Biomedical Informatics and holds the Major E.B. Stahlman Chair in Infectious Diseases and Inflammation.

Professor Phillips is the Clinical lead of the Drug Hypersensitivity Research Group, which is focused on investigating the immunological mechanisms driving allergic reactions to certain drugs.

Mark is a molecular biologist with a longstanding research interest in virology, with a focus on molecular biology and immunology and antivirals with more recent interest being in cancer immunology. His team works with researchers to achieve their research goals specialising in immunology and infectious disease. He also plays a key role in the health research building ensuring that things run smoothly.

Dr Chopra leads research and development for Murdoch’s Medical Genomics Research Facility and has established a world class, state of the art accredited laboratory specializing in molecular genomics. She has an extensive track record in driving the development of novel, leading-edge techniques and analysis tools utilized by academic and industry collaborators throughout the world.

Dr Ram is a Medical Bioinformatician with extensive experience in analyzing complex genomics datasets particularly in the single cell domain.

Dr Copper has over 15 years' experience in developing medical genomics data analysis and laboratory LIMS software. A constantly evolving need for new software solutions helps keep the laboratory at the cutting edge and Don enables this.

Hayley is a senior scientist that has over 10 years' experience in molecular and cellular accredit laboratory experience. He plays key roles in developing new assays and data analysis of our HLA typing.

Imran has a central role in ensuring the laboratory meets its accreditation requirements. Imran also oversees many of the operational needs of the laboratory and ensures the laboratory resources are stocked and quality managed.

Linda is our specimen receptionist and has been with the team since 2004 and who we rely on for our exceptional sample logistics and inventory management. Linda also plays a central role in laboratory workflows being competent with most of the molecular and cellular laboratory workflows.

Melissa is our molecular laboratory workflow expert with exceptional practical experience in all our molecular laboratory workflows. If you send samples for molecular analysis chances are the samples will have been through Melissa's hand sat some point.

Andrew leads the drug hypersensitivity laboratory for the NH&MRC funded activities.

Sonali like Melissa plays a key role in our molecular laboratory workflows ensuring the workflow execution meets our strict accreditation standards.

Marjan is our newest laboratory member and is rapidly expending her skill sets across the molecular and cellular laboratory workflows. With a Veterinary Degree from Iran, she has been a valuable addition to the team.