Professor Nick Gottardo

Professor Nick Gottardo is Clinical Director of the WA Comprehensive Kids Cancer Centre, Head of the Paediatric Oncology and Haematology Department at Perth Children’s Hospital and co-leads the Brain Tumour Research team at The Kids Research Institute Australia.  

Professor Gottardo is a clinician-scientist who develops novel treatments for children's cancer with the aim to reduce long-term side effects. He provides the best possible treatment for all children in Western Australia and globally. His work has led to the establishment of the Perth Children’s Hospital Oncology Clinical Trials Unit, expanding cutting-edge therapies for children in WA. 

He is the recent past chair of ANZCHOG (Australian and New Zealand Children’s Haematology/Oncology Group), Australia and New Zealand’s childhood cancer cooperative trial group and peak body for childhood cancer and sits on the Executive and Steering Committees of CONNECT, the international paediatric neuro-oncology clinical trials network and a member of the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) Central Nervous System (CNS) Tumor committee. His work has been published in Nature, Nature Medicine, and The Lancet Oncology. He was named Cancer Council WA Researcher of the Year in 2022.