Associate Professor Paul Ekert is Group Leader of Translational Tumour Biology at the Children’s Cancer Institute (CCI) and Head of Translational Genomics in the ZERO Childhood Cancer Program. His research interests include the molecular biology and therapeutic targeting of genomic drivers in paediatric cancer. Professor Ekert is the current Deputy Director, Research Themes at CCI, and is cross appointed at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute.