Prof Kate Sutherland
Laboratory Head, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI), TOGA Translational Research
Co-Chair
Prof Kate Sutherland is a Laboratory Head at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI). She completed a Bachelor of Science (Hons) degree and PhD from The University of Melbourne in 2005. From 2006-2012, she undertook postdoctoral studies under the mentorship of Prof Anton Berns at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, before returning to Melbourne in 2013 to establish an independent research group at WEHI.
Her research program is dedicated to understanding tumour heterogeneity in lung cancer, with a focus on small cell lung cancer and KRAS-mutant lung adenocarcinoma. Her work has established new approaches and technologies to study lung cancer, leading to seminal findings on new genetic drivers, the immune microenvironment, and molecular mechanisms underlying anti-tumour immunity in lung cancer. Kate has been the recipient of funding from Worldwide Cancer Research (UK), NHMRC, Cancer Australia, Cancer Council Victoria, and the Victorian Cancer Agency.
