Dr Lisa Mielke, PhD

• Title: Dr Lisa Mielke, PhD
• Year: 2024
• Organisation: Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute
• Qualifications: Laboratory Head

“UNLEASHING IMMUNE CELLS FOR DEFENCE AGAINST BOWEL CANCER.“

Dr Lisa Mielke is a Victorian Cancer Agency Fellow and Head of the Mucosal Immunity and Cancer laboratory at the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute. She is a Cancer Program Lead for the La Trobe Institute of Molecular Sciences, La Trobe University. Dr Mielke is an expert in immune cell biology,
gut homeostasis and bowel cancer.

She completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne and National Institutes of Health USA. She then performed postdoctoral studies at Trinity College Dublin and the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.

During this time, Dr Mielke led numerous studies revealing new interactions between our diet and function of immune cells in the gut. These studies opened an exciting frontier of research that underpin her current interest investigating the role of immune cells in bowel cancer.