Adjunct Associate Professor Alka Saxena is the Founding Director of Genomics WA and a clinician-scientist with a PhD from the University of Melbourne. She is also a
graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD).
Previously, she headed the BRC Genomics Research Platform at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and held a Senior Research Fellowship at King’s
College London. During this time, she established and led MRC-funded single-cell and NIHR-funded antimicrobial resistance genomics laboratories. Her expertise spans single-cell genomics, manual and automated library preparation, short- and long-read sequencing, and bioinformatics analysis, with experience in developing and benchmarking genomic technologies for clinical research samples.