Nick Gottardo MBChB, FRACP, PhD

Nick Gottardo is a clinician/scientist based in Perth, Western Australia. He is a paediatric oncologist/neuro-oncologist and Head of the Department of Paediatric Oncology and Haematology at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children. He is also the Co-leader of the Brain Tumour Research Programme at the Telethon Kids Institute. He undertook his neuro-oncology fellowship at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, where he developed extensive experience in mouse model generation and preclinical testing.

The Brain Tumour Research Programme focuses on testing novel therapies using mouse model systems that more closely recapitulate the human disease, in order to test the effectiveness of new treatments for childhood brain tumours, so that the most promising therapies can be taken through to the clinic. He is the chair of the Children’s Oncology Group’s front-line clinical trial for WNT subgroup medulloblastoma patients, which will investigate therapy reduction for this subgroup of patients who have excellent survival on current therapy.