Dr Fatima (Fa) Valdes Mora

BSc (Hons), PhD (UAM, Spain) 

Team Leader, Cancer Epigenetic Biology and Therapeutics

Children's Cancer Institute

Dr Fatima Valdes Mora (Fa) joined Children’s Cancer Institute in 2020 to establish a new research group as a Team Leader. Fa has previously worked at the Garvan Institute, where she established the Histone Variants Group. She is also a Conjoint Senior Lecturer at UNSW Sydney. 

Fa’s team collaborates with ZERO to characterise the epigenetic-driven tumours of patients currently enrolled in ZERO to further understand their molecular role on tumour profession. Their goal is to propose novel and personalised epigenetic-based therapy for children with cancer.

Find out more about Fa on the Children's Cancer Institute website

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