Toby Trahair

Toby Trahair is a senior staff specialist in paediatric & haematology and oncology at the Kids Cancer Centre, Sydney Children’s Hospital, a translational researcher at the Children’s Cancer Institute and conjoint lecturer at the University of New South Wales.

Toby completed his medical degree at the University of Sydney in 1994 and subsequent specialist clinical training as paediatric haematologist, oncologist and & stem cell transplant physician in 2004. Toby’s clinical training has been complemented by PhD studies at the Children’s Medical Research Institute, University of Sydney (1996-1999) and post-doctoral studies at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (2005-06) and the Children’s Cancer Institute (2006-08). Since 2006, Toby has practised as a consultant paediatric oncologist and undertaken translational research with colleagues at the Children’s Cancer Institute.

Toby’s clinical and research interests include clinical trials for children with neuroblastoma, developing patient derived xenograft neuroblastoma models, personalised medicine for children with cancer and molecular monitoring for children’s cancers including leukaemia, neuroblastoma and other solid tumours. He is one of the six representatives of the lesser recruiting country within the SIOPEN Executive Committee.