Professor John Seymour MB BS FRACP PhD AM is the Director of the Department of Haematology of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre & the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. He graduated from the University of Melbourne and completed a translational research fellowship at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, subsequently receiving their Distinguished Alumnus award. He has a PhD for research on the pathobiology of haematopoietic growth factors conducted at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research.
Professor Seymour is a Vincent Fairfax Fellow in Ethical Leadership, co-chair of the Australian national Blood Cancer Taskforce and a member of several international scientific committees including, the Scientific Boards of the International Workshop on CLL, and Hairy Cell Leukemia Foundation, Scientific Advisory Committee for the International Conference on Malignant Lymphoma, Medical Advisory Board of the Lymphoma Coalition, and the Board of Directors of the International Extranodal Lymphoma Study Group.
For over a decade he served as Executive member and Chairman of the major national clinical trials co-operative group in haematologic malignancies, the Australasian Leukaemia & Lymphoma Group, and 6 years as Associate Director of Research (Clinical) for Peter Mac.
Committed to academic publishing, he is an Editor-in-Chief of Leukemia & Lymphoma, currently on the editorial boards of eight academic journals including the BJH, and previously on Blood, Haematologica and JCO. He has authored 23 book chapters, over 650 peer reviewed publications (with more than 60,000 literature citations; h-index=106), and 900 conference abstracts. Actively involved in a broad range of clinical and translational research, Professor Seymour has been the principal investigator on more than 90 clinical trials and a chief investigator on competitive grants awarded over $90 million AUD funding in the last decade. In 2015 he was awarded Membership of the Order of Australia and elected to the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences for his contributions to the field.