Professor Stacey Edwards is an NHMRC Leadership Fellow and Head of the Functional Cancer Genomics Laboratory at QIMR Berghofer. Her research applies advanced molecular approaches to identify and characterise novel cancer genes. She has led international efforts translating breast and ovarian cancer GWAS data, pinpointing key risk variants, linking them to their target protein-coding genes and noncoding RNAs, and revealing how these changes drive cancer. Professor Edwards also leads projects aimed at discovering long noncoding RNAs that contribute to therapy resistance. Her work combines genetics, genomics, chromatin and transcriptome profiling with computational and molecular biology, to accelerate the path from genetic discovery to biological insight. Through this integrated approach, her lab is uncovering the biological mechanisms underlying cancer risk and therapy response, ultimately guiding the development of more targeted and effective treatments.