Anusha Hettiaratchi Biobanking - Blue Sky Horizons (ABNA 19th Annual Conference)

Anusha Hettiaratchi

Anusha manages UNSW's Biospecimen Services located within the Lowy Cancer Centre, as part of the Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre. She has over 15 years’ experience as a bench scientist, and uses skills learnt and refined during this time to now enable research through the services offered by UNSW Biospecimen Services. She has been in this role since first hired to establish the UNSW Biorepository (as it was then named) in 2010. As part of her role Anusha helps researchers set up collection protocols including help with ethics applications, manages the running of the processing lab and the biobanking database, including working with project managers, hospital staff and hospital management to establish and maintain on-going collections and distributions of biospecimens. Anusha is an active member of both ABNA and ISBER. She is a co-chair for ISBERs 2023 Annual Meeting is Seattle, a member of ABNAs 2022 Management Committee, this year's ABNA Conference Organising Committee and ABNAs 2020-2021 past president.