Associate Professor Kaylene Simpson heads the Victorian Centre for Functional Genomics at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia.

 

The VCFG enables researchers to perform unbiased target discovery using high throughput approaches including CRISPR, RNAi and compound screening in both 2D and 3D, underpinned by sophisticated cell phenotyping using high content imaging. 

 

Kaylene leads a highly experienced team who actively engage with researchers to help drive their research projects to fruition. 

 

She has a wealth of experience in assay development, data interpretation and analysis in the area of functional genomics and contributes intellectually to all projects and technology initiatives.

 

The VCFG has established an automated, high throughput, high content imaging 3D screening platform that can embed cell lines, patient or PDX derived materials in many different culture settings.