Loretta Lau is the leader of the Neuroblastoma Research Program, the newest research program started in 2008 at the Children's Cancer Research Unit. As a clinician-scientist, she is a Clinical Research Fellow of the Cancer Institute of NSW and within the hospital she holds a paediatric oncologist (specialist in childhood cancer) appointment. She is also a senior lecturer in the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Sydney. [More...]

Loretta Lau is the leader of the Neuroblastoma Research Program, the newest research program started in 2008 at the Children's Cancer Research Unit. As a clinician-scientist, she is a Clinical Research Fellow of the Cancer Institute of NSW and within the hospital she holds a paediatric oncologist (specialist in childhood cancer) appointment. She is also a senior lecturer in the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Sydney.

Dr Lau obtained her medical degree from the University of Sydney, followed by a Master of Medicine in Clinical Epidemiology. She did her training in paediatric oncology at The Children's Hospital at Westmead and is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. Loretta then spent 6 years in Canada to pursue further clinical and research training in paediatric oncology at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, during which she completed a PhD focusing on neuroblastoma research supported by the James Fund for Neuroblastoma Research project grant. While in Toronto, she was awarded a Clinical Research Fellowship by the National Cancer Institute of Canada, the Young Investigator Award by the American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, the Brigid G Leventhal Scholar Award in Cancer Research and, the Young Investigator Award by the American Association of Cancer Research. Dr Lau returned to Sydney in 2008 to take up the Clinical Research Fellowship awarded by the Cancer Institute of NSW and to establish the Neuroblastoma Research Program. Dr Lau is also a Young Investigator within the Neuroblastoma Committee of the Children's Oncology Group, the world's largest childhood cancer research collaborative group. Her aim is to pursue a career in neuroblastoma research and, as a clinician-scientist, to bridge the "gap" between scientific progress in the laboratory and better treatment at the bedside. [Hide detail]