Assistant Professor Meehan joined the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery within the Faculty of Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in September 2019. Previously, she was the Head of Cancer Biology within the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Western Australia (UWA). She graduated with a BSc (First Class Honours) from Curtin University in 1998, completed a PhD from UWA in 2002 and also holds Graduate Certificate in Applied Epidemiology and Biostatistics. She has almost 50 publications, over 1000 citations, and an h-index of 14. She has secured over $3M AUD of external funds to support her research. Professor Meehan is establishing a new and innovative translational research program in head and neck cancer. The overarching aim of her research is to improve the understanding of mechanisms of metastases and immunobiology to facilitate identification of novel biomarkers for diagnosis, prognosis and prediction. Another key area of investigation is on the clinical potential of liquid biopsies, in particular extracellular vesicles, in cancer monitoring. She is ideally positioned in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery where she works closely with surgical oncologists and other clinical experts to perform clinically focused, translational research.