Dr Noa Lamm-Shalem

Mid-Career
Dr Noa Lamm-Shalem is Head of the Nuclear Dynamics Group at the Children’s Medical Research Institute and a lecturer at the University of Sydney. She obtained her Bachelor of Science in Biology and Psychology from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. There, she pursued both a Master’s and PhD in the Genetics Department. During her PhD she studied dyskeratosis congenita, a rare genetic disorder characterised by severe bone marrow failure and increased cancer risk, and identified new disease relating mutations and revealed a novel disease-causing mechanism. Her research investigates the impact of DNA replication stress on genome integrity and its implications for cancer development.