Associate Professor Piers Blombery is a Clinical and Laboratory Haematologist and Lead of the Molecular Haematology Service in the Department of Pathology at Peter Mac. He completed dual fellowship training in clinical and laboratory haematology and travelled to the UK to complete his training at University College Hospital London (UCLH). Associate Professor Blombery then worked as a consultant haematologist at UCLH, after completing his specialty training. He returned to Melbourne as a haematologist in the aggressive lymphoma tumour stream and to lead the molecular haematology service. He also runs the genetic haematology service at Peter Mac including an expanding clinical research program in inherited blood diseases that has included the Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Bone Marrow Failure Flagship and more recently the MRV-funded EMBRACE and MRFF-funded IBMDx study for whole genome sequencing in these diseases.

Associate Professor Blombery runs the Wilson Centre for Blood Cancer Genomics, a translational diagnostics research program supported by the Wilson Family Trust and Snowdome Foundation. The centre focuses on implementation of new diagnostic technologies including circulating tumour DNA, targeted therapy resistance and genomic interrogation of bone marrow failure and involves multiple national and international collaborators.

Associate Professor Blombery has completed a PhD from the University of Melbourne and has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and authored four book chapters. He is regularly invited to speak at national and international forums on genomics and molecular medicine as being chief/associate investigator on over $15 million of research funding over the past 5 years.