Professor Rishi Kotecha

Professor Kotecha is a highly qualified clinician-scientist. He has been working as a Consultant in Child and Adolescent Haematology/Oncology in Perth, Western Australia since 2012, is Co-Head of The Kids Research Institute Australia Leukaemia Translational Research team and is a Clinical Professor at The University of Western Australia. He currently holds a NHMRC Investigator Grant (2025-2029) and was named the 2024 Cancer Council of Western Australia Cancer Researcher of the year.

Nationally, Professor Kotecha chairs the ANZCHOG Leukaemia–Lymphoma Group and serves as Clinical Lead for paediatric blood cancer in WA, driving strategic planning and equitable access to medicines for children with haematological malignancy. Internationally, he is an active member of the Children's Oncology Group acute lymphoblastic leukaemia committee and the INTERFANT committee, contributing to the design of global clinical trials for children and infants with leukaemia. His goal is to translate preclinical discoveries into frontline clinical trials to improve outcomes for children with blood cancer.