Associate Professor Anthony (Tony) Cesare BSc, PhD — is the Leader of the CMRI Genome Integrity Group. He obtained his BSc from Willamette University (Salem, Oregon, USA) and his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA) before training as a USA National Science Foundation International Research Fellow with Roger Reddel at CMRI and a USA National Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Fellow with Jan Karlseder at the Salk Institute (La Jolla, California, USA). He returned to Sydney in June 2013 to establish his own research group at CMRI with the assistance of a Cancer Institute NSW Future Research Leader Award.