DrJulia Steinberg

A/Prof Julia Steinberg is a Cancer Institute NSW Career Development Fellow and leads the Genomics and Precision Health research team at the Daffodil Centre. Her research programme aims to integrate individual and population-level genomic, sociodemographic, medical, and behaviour information for successful precision health. Julia's focus is on effectively and sustainably improving human health and reducing the burden of cancer.

Julia completed a DPhil (PhD) in Genomic Medicine and Statistics at the University of Oxford, followed by postdoctoral work in genomics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute / University of Cambridge. She moved to Australia in 2017, changing her research focus to cancer.

Julia co-leads the Australian Cancer Risk Study, a collaborative transdisciplinary program on genomic risk prediction and risk-tailored screening and early detection for the four most common cancers in Australia. She also leads MCD Spotlight, a new collaborative program of work to evaluate the potential of innovative multi-cancer detection (MCD) tests in Australia. Finally, she uses large-scale data to help understand the current gaps and inefficiencies in healthcare, identifying potential inequities and opportunities for tailored interventions to improve health outcomes.