Rate My Professor Karen MacKenzie

Associate Professor Karen MacKenzie is a Conjoint Associate Professor in the Sydney Medical School at the University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine and Health. She holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Biomedical Science from the University of Technology Sydney and a PhD from UNSW Sydney's School of Physiology and Pharmacology, focusing on oncogenic drivers in leukaemia. Her postdoctoral training took place in the Laboratory of Developmental Hematopoiesis at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA, investigating telomerase's role in normal and neoplastic haematopoiesis, cell replicative lifespan, and malignant transformation. Recruited to Children's Cancer Institute, she led an independent research group funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council, NSW Cancer Council, Cancer Institute NSW, and other agencies, advancing studies on cancer cell immortality, telomerase, haematopoiesis, and translational research into therapeutic targets, pre-clinical testing, and personalised medicine.