Dr Laura Eadie

Dr Eadie is an award-winning biomedical researcher and the Peter Nelson Leukaemia Research Fellow, awarded to the top mid-career leukaemia researcher in South Australia (2019-current). She is a previous Fulbright scholar, a TEDx speaker and science communicator.

Dr Eadie has been awarded >$2.5 million in fellowship/grant funding since commencing her PhD from funding bodies including NHMRC, MRFF, Leukaemia Foundation, Cancer Council, Australian-American Fulbright Commission; the majority as CI-A. Laura has 8 years postdoctoral experience in the field of leukaemia research.

Dr Eadie is currently researching (since 2017) Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL), and is the T-ALL research leader. Dr Eadie is an emerging Australian leader in T-ALL genomics and modelling, most recently evidenced by an American Society of Hematology Achievement Award (2020). Her ALL research has resulted in 8 abstracts as presenting author (6 presentations at international meetings) and 8 publications including 3 invited reviews. She has published 19 peer-reviewed articles, cited 517 times (Google Scholar), 9 as first author and 5 in Leukemia (a top-5 discipline journal).