Professor Alistair Forrest holds an NHMRC Level 2 Investigator Grant and is Head of the Systems Biology and Genomics Laboratory at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research in Perth, Western Australia. Since returning to Australia in 2015, he has established and led statewide collaborative capacity in cancer single cell genomics, securing major co investment from the Cancer Research Trust, the Australian Cancer Research Foundation and Cancer Council WA. His research programme integrates single cell, single nucleus and spatial transcriptomics with functional tumour slice models to dissect the cellular architecture of ovarian cancer and to identify robust predictors of treatment response and patient outcome.