Success Stories From Catherine Robson

Over the Australian summer, we'll be replaying some of your favourite episodes. We bet you will learn something you missed the first time. Dr Melissa Davis is a computational biologist and Laboratory Head of the Bioinformatics Division at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. Driven by a passion to make the cancer diagnosis a less devastating one, Melissa and her team are at the cutting edge of bioinformatic studies aimed to reduce the traumatic side effects patients experience while being treated for cancer.In this week's Success Story, Melissa shares with Catherine Robson the role sophisticated data analytics and mathematical modelling play in revolutionising cancer treatment and why a difficult financial decision led to the career she loves today.