Dr Caroline Bateman is a Paediatric Haematologist and Oncologist at the Cancer Centre for Children at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead. She trained in the UK at The Royal Marsden and Great Ormond Street Hospitals. Her clinical interests are childhood leukaemia (including high-risk leukaemia), lymphoma, pre malignant disorders. She has completed a PhD with Professor Sir Mel Greaves FRS at The Institute of Cancer, London, UK. She studied the molecular pathogenesis of childhood ALL, the results of which has led to a better understanding on how leukaemia develops in children. Her research interest remains in the aetiology and pathogenesis of childhood leukaemia but also includes emerging immune effector cell therapies such as CAR-T and other immunotherapies , this is in collaboration with The Immunotherapy Group at The Westmead Institute for Medical Research. She is a member of ANZCHOG Leukaemia and Lymphoma Group.