Assoc Prof Raelene Endersby holds a Cancer Council WA Research Fellowship and co-leads the Brain Tumour Research Program within the WA Kids Cancer Centre at The Kids Research Institute in Perth, WA. Raelene joined The Kids following postdoc training at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital (Memphis, USA), and has built a translational research team that seeks to discover improved treatments for childhood brain cancers. Her team use a suite of preclinical models and techniques to understand the underlying biology of paediatric brain tumours, as well as to evaluate novel treatments, the best of which she translates to clinical trial with clinical collaborators at Perth Children’s Hospital and beyond. Raelene is passionate about mentoring the next generation of scientists, performing rigorous high-quality research, and engaging diverse opinions to guide her work especially from families affected by brain cancer.