Kiki Syrad

Kiki joined GOSH Charity in 2012. As Director of Impact & Charitable Programmes, she is responsible for working with the hospital to agree priorities for charitable funding. This includes developing the charity research strategy, together with the hospital and the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.

Kiki’s team is responsible for grant management and funding, impact evaluation, and grant communications. She completed her undergraduate degree at Monash University, then completed her PhD at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at Melbourne University.

She moved to the UK to take up a Cancer Research UK-funded post-doc at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford. Kiki then joined Breakthrough Breast Cancer in 2005, where she was Head of Research Strategy and Funding. Kiki is a Trustee of NHS Charities Together.