Associate Professor Richard Tothill
Associate Professor Richard Tothill leads the Rare Disease Oncogenomics Laboratory within the Collaborative Centre for Genomics Cancer Medicine and University of Melbourne Department of Clinical Pathology. His research involves understanding the genomic pathology of rare cancers, developing diagnostic methods and implementation clinical genomics for precision medicine.
Associate Professor Tothill has been an early adopter of genomic technologies including next-generation DNA sequencing and bulk and single-cell gene-expression profiling methods. He is the translational lead of the national Solving Unknown Primary Cancer (SUPER) program involving the deployment of clinical whole-genome sequencing and the development of liquid biopsy methods for patients with cancer of unknown primary. He also leads a NET translational genomics working group affiliated with the Peter Mac ENETs Centre of Excellence.