# Susan Clark

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## TL;DR

Pioneer of DNA methylation analysis whose Garvan laboratory studies how epigenetic changes drive prostate and breast cancer.

## Summary

Susan Clark heads the Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney. She developed the bisulphite sequencing method that made genome-wide DNA methylation mapping possible, and her group investigates epigenome remodelling in prostate and breast cancer and its use in biomarkers. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.

## Fields

- Kind: Person
- Last checked: 2026-09-10
- Tags: clinician-scientist; epigenetics; prostate cancer; breast cancer
- Role: Head of the Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory
- Specialisms: Cancer epigenetics; DNA methylation; Prostate and breast cancer

## Sources

- PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Clark+SJ%5BAuthor%5D+methylation

## Connected records

- cancers: [HR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-hr-positive/), [Prostate cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/prostate/)
- institutions: [Garvan Institute of Medical Research / Kinghorn Cancer Centre](https://onco.cc/institutions/garvan-institute/)

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