A/Prof Erin Symonds

Assoc Prof Erin Symonds has over 20 years of experience in gastroenterology research. She completed her PhD (physiology) through the University of Adelaide, then received a NHMRC Post-doctoral fellowship to research the prevention of gastrointestinal diseases, which included working in the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre in University College Cork (Cork, Ireland), followed by the Nutrigenomics and Nutrigenetics laboratory at CSIRO (Adelaide, South Australia). Since the beginning of 2013 she has been the team leader of the Bowel Health Services (Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia). Her team’s research focus is on cancer biomarkers and optimising prevention strategies, and through MRFF and NHMRC funding, they are improving cancer screening options for people in the community, optimising surveillance for people who are at higher risk for developing cancer, and monitoring for risk of cancer recurrence after treatment.