Dr. Noemi Fuentes Bolanos

Biography

Noemi Fuentes Bolanos is a clinical academic originally from Spain who serves as a Conjoint Associate Lecturer at the University of New South Wales. She completed her medical degree and then earned a Master of Sciences in Biomedicine before undertaking a PhD in Epidemiology in 2017. Noemi has undergone post-doctoral training in Germline Cancer Risk, specializing in Paediatric Oncology Clinical Genetics. She has gained extensive international experience through training in Spain, the United Kingdom at The Royal Marsden Hospital, and in Australia at Sydney Children’s Hospital. Currently, as Senior Lecturer in the School of Medical Sciences, her primary research focus involves understanding Germline Cancer Risk in children, adolescents, and young adults and its implications for the diagnosis and management of childhood cancer. Noemi is actively involved in the national ZERO Childhood Cancer Program in Australia, focusing on interpreting somatic and germline findings in childhood cancer, aiming to make meaningful clinical recommendations. She is also a key contributor to developing national clinical guidelines for monitoring children with cancer predisposition syndromes and leads the Cancer PREDisposItion Childhood Trio-based sequencing (PREDICT) Study, a pilot initiative analyzing family-based whole genome sequencing for newly diagnosed child and adolescent cancer cases.

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