Monica Slavin leads a National Centre of Research Excellence in Infections in Cancer at University of Melbourne, Australia. She is Director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and of the Immunocompromised Host Infection Service at Royal Melbourne Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. She is Professor of Infection in Cancer and Transplantation at the University of Melbourne. Her research is in diagnosis and management of infections in the immunocompromised host with a particular interest in fungal infection.