Dr. Niluja Thiru (B.Sc., MBBS, FRANZCR, MPH, PhD) is a Staff Specialist in Radiation Oncology and holds a Conjoint Senior Lecturer position at The University of Sydney. She completed her medical studies at The University of Queensland and speciality training in Australia before undertaking the Windeyer Brachytherapy Fellowship at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, UK. Following this she completed her PhD with the Translational Radiobiology group at The University of Manchester on hypoxia gene expression signatures in prostate cancer. Her research interests primarily focus on radiation response biomarkers, with a particular emphasis on their application in genitourinary and gynaecological cancers.