Young SIOP Network Blog

Hi there! For the coming weeks, our blog will be dedicated to our Young SIOP Award winners! Please meet Marion Mateos, YI from Australia, in their own words.  I am a Paediatric Oncologist and early career clinician researcher. I have appointments at Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick, the University of New South Wales and the Children’s Cancer Institute Australia. My clinical practice focuses on treatment of childhood brain tumours and leukaemia. I have research interests in clinical trial development for high-risk childhood cancer, biomarker development and application of liquid biopsy, as well as research aimed at reducing treatment-related toxicities. My overseas post-doctoral fellowship focused on biomarker analysis using RNA sequencing data in medulloblastoma, as well as clinical research in germline variants. My core experience lies in large clinical datasets, precision medicine, genomics and genome-wide association-studies. Despite only 2.4 years full-time research equivalent p