Amanda Reese

Amanda is the Director of Commercialisation at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre where she is responsible for identification, protection and the commercialisation of the organisation’s innovative research discoveries. She is a licensing and commercialisation specialist with over 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry and public hospital sectors. Amanda spent over 12 years at CSL from 2002 to 2015, most recently as Associate Director for In-Licensing. At CSL she gained broad experience across business development, regulatory affairs, medical affairs, R&D commercialisation, brand management and in-licensing roles. Amanda’s breadth of industry experience includes time within small, start-up biotechs, mid-tier and large pharmaceutical companies. Amanda has a Bachelor of Science with Honours and PhD in pharmacology from Monash University.