Associate Professor Paul Ekert is the Group Leader of Cancer Research at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the Head, Molecular Pathology, Children’s Cancer Centre, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. His group has several research interests, which include the study of the genetic lesions that drive paediatric cancers. This includes the use of RNA sequencing to identify novel translocations and other driving genomic features in paediatric cancers, with a focus on leukaemia. His laboratory also has a long track record of studying cytokine receptor signaling and the regulation of cell death pathways. Before joining the MCRI, he was a laboratory head at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and a paediatrician at the Royal Children’s Hospital.