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BioGrid 2026 Symposium and Annual General Meeting

3:30PM - 7:30PM Tuesday 28th April 2026
Charles La Trobe Theatre, Royal Melbourne Hospital, 300 Grattan St, Parkville, VIC
BioGrid is holding a Symposium and Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Tuesday 28 April, 2026 from 3:30pm.

BioGrid is empowering researchers across Australia with secure, end-to-end data solutions that simplify complexity, accelerate discovery, and improve health for everyone.

At our Symposium, guest speakers will be presenting on research projects being conducted in collaboration with BioGrid.

At the AGM we will be reporting on the 18-month period from 1 July 2024 to 31 December 2025, reflecting our recent change to a calendar year financial reporting period.

We look forward to you joining us for an afternoon of insightful presentations by researchers who are being supported by BioGrid to get from data to discovery, faster.  

Venue: 

Charles La Trobe Theatre, Ground Floor, Royal Melbourne Hospital, 300 Grattan Street, Parkville, VIC

BioGrid Symposium and Annual General Meeting

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Time
Session
Speakers
3:30pmRegistration, Coffee / Tea
4:00pmWelcome, Acknowledgement of CountryRobert Grenfell, Chair, BioGrid Australia
Maureen Turner, CEO, BioGrid Australia
4:15pmiNAAN: Enabling Sustainable Antibiotic Allergy Programs with Digital Innovation
Elise Mitri, Project Manager for the International Network of Antibiotic Allergy Nations (iNAAN) and iNAAN-Kids study
4:30pmConnecting the Dots: The National Cancer Cohort Platform: the Future of Real-World Evidence in Australia
Ashley Ng, Deputy Director and Clinical Informatics Lead in the Centre for Health Services Research at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Lisa Devereux, Research Resource Manager at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
4:45pmAustralian Rare Cancer Portal: The next chapter 
Cassie Turner, Medical Oncologist at the Sunshine Coast University Hospital in Queensland
5:00pmFrom Data to Outcomes: The Evolution of the ANZ Perfusion Registry
Rona Steel, Perfusionist at Westmead Public Hospital, Westmead Private, and Norwest Private Hospitals in Sydney, and Data Manager for ANZSCTS and ANZCPR
5:15pmTurning Routine EMR Data into Actionable Infection Surveillance: The EINSTEIN Project
Anna Khanina, Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Stewardship Pharmacist 
Zoe Neoh, Senior Research Fellow at the National Centre for Infections in Cancer, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
5:30pmBioGrid Australia 2025 Annual General Meeting
6:00pmTrialling Transformation: Implementing Precision Oncology into Routine Healthcare
Natalie Taylor, Founder and Director of Implementation to Impact (i2i) at UNSW Sydney
6:15pmThe Usefulness of Quality Assurance Registry Data - an update from ANZTHOR
Phillip Antippa, Head of Thoracic Surgical Services at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
6:30pmThe Australasian Dermatology Registry: two years in
Peter Foley, Director of Research at the Skin Health Institute and the Head of Dermatology Research at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
6:45pmSnow Centre of Immune Health Digital Hub:  Building a New Integrated Platform to Deliver Personalized Immunology
Ashley Ng, Digital Hub Lead for the SNOW Centre of Immune Health
7:00pmSession closeRobert Grenfell, Chair, BioGrid Australia
7:05pmRefreshments


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