About
Nic is an NHMRC L2 Investigator and uses sequence data to study disease. She completed her PhD in 2003 at the University of Leicester UK, then undertook two post doc positions at QIMR Berghofer (with KumKum Khanna and Georgia Chenevix-Trench) before working at the IMB in UQ.
In 2015, Nic established the Medical Genomics Group at QIMR Berghofer, who use multi-omic data to predict patient outcomes and identify novel markers of prognosis and treatment response. She played a key role in the Australian International Cancer Genome Consortia (ICGC) projects and the Australian Melanoma Genome Project (AMGP).
She has published as last or co-last author in high impact journals including Nature, Cancer Cell, Nature Communications and Nature Reviews in Clinical Oncology, with her work receiving more than 30k cites.
She is co-founder of precision analytics company, genomiQa. This company specialises in in whole genome data analysis.