Professor Jeff Holst leads the Translational Cancer Metabolism Laboratory in the School of Biomedical Sciences at UNSW Sydney. Jeff completed his PhD in 2003 at St Vincent’s Hospital/UNSW Sydney and undertook postdoctoral studies at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis TN in immunology. He returned to Australia in 2006, starting a lab at the Centenary Institute focussing on the role of nutrient metabolism in cancer. In 2018, he was recruited to UNSW Sydney where he continues to study new ways to target metabolic pathways in melanoma, glioblastoma, breast and prostate cancer. His research examines the basic biology regulating nutrient uptake and downstream metabolism in cancer, developing physiological cancer models, as well as developing new therapeutic strategies to target metabolic pathways.