Dr Lisa Mielke

A/Prof Lisa Mielke is 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.

A/Prof Mielke is an expert in immune cell biology, intestinal homeostasis and colorectal cancer. She completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne and National Institutes of Health, USA. She then did postdoctoral studies at Trinity College Dublin and the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI), Melbourne. During this time, A/Prof Mielke led numerous studies revealing new interactions between our diet and transcriptional regulation of intestinal immune cells. These studies opened an exciting frontier of research in the field of mucosal immunology that underpins her current interest in investigating the role of immune cells in bowel cancer.