A/Prof Jayesh Desai is an academically-focused Medical Oncologist at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre/Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC).
He Co-Chairs the Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcoma service at Peter Mac, and acts as the Research and Education lead for the VCCC in sarcoma.
A/Prof Jayesh has been intimately involved in ANZSA since its inception, having co-founded the ASSG, and acted as its inaugural Deputy-Chair, and then Chair.
He has extensive experience in developing new drugs for cancers, with a particular focus on sarcoma, and is Head of Early Drug Development Trials at Peter Mac and co-heads the Precision Medicine/genomics program at the VCCC, enabling these activities.
He has served on several key national/international committees, including the American Society of Clinical Oncology and World Sarcoma Network. A/Prof Jayesh completed his Medical Oncology training in Melbourne in 2002. He completed a translational research fellowship in sarcoma at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA.