Associate Professor Piers Blombery

Associate Professor Piers Blombery is a Clinical and Laboratory Haematologist and Lead of the Molecular Haematology Service in the Department of Pathology at Peter Mac. He completed dual fellowship training in clinical and laboratory haematology and travelled to the UK to complete his training at University College Hospital London (UCLH). Associate Professor Blombery then worked as a consultant haematologist at UCLH, after completing his specialty training. He returned to Melbourne as a haematologist in the aggressive lymphoma tumour stream to lead the molecular haematology service. He also runs the genetic haematology service at Peter Mac including an expanding clinical research program in inherited blood diseases that has included the Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Bone Marrow Failure Flagship and more recently the MRV-funded EMBRACE and MRFF-funded IBMDx study for whole genome sequencing in these diseases.

Associate Professor Blombery leads the Wilson Centre for Blood Cancer Genomics, a translational diagnostics and research initiative supported through the Snowdome Foundation. The centre focuses on implementation of novel technologies into accredited diagnostic testing to improve outcomes for patients with blood cancer. The centre also has a broad research program which includes targeted therapy resistance and genomic interrogation of inherited bone marrow failure and involves multiple national and international collaborators.

Associate Professor Blombery has completed a PhD from the University of Melbourne and has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, as well as four book chapters. He is regularly invited to speak at national and international forums on genomics and molecular medicine as chief/associate investigator on over $15 million of research funding over the past five years.