Rayan Saleh Moussa
Dr Rayan Saleh Moussa is the National Manager of the Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative (PaCCSC), Cancer Symptom Trials (CST) and IMPACCT Trials Coordination Centre (ITCC), based within the Centre for Improving Palliative, Aged and Chronic Care through Clinical Research and Translation (IMPACCT), at the University of Technology Sydney. She is also the CST Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
Her postdoctoral research is focused on improving the preclinical to clinical pipeline through multidisciplinary translational research in cancer symptom therapeutics and interventions.
Rayan has a Bachelor of Medical Science (Hons) from the University of Sydney. Rayan was awarded her doctorate in cancer therapeutics in 2017 by The University of Sydney. Her PhD focused on how iron chelators, a class of anti-cancer drugs, can slow or stop cancer growth through limited uptake of iron.
She made the transition from the lab to clinical research when she commenced her role at CST in 2019, where she is leading multiple projects, some of which are listed below:
• Translating the CALD Navigator Model for NSW Palliative Care Services - CALDPC Nav: focused on improving access to and experience of palliative care among Arabic and Chinese-speaking communities. Funded by NSW MoH- https://www.nsw.gov.au/grants-and-funding/end-of-life-and-palliative-care-research-grant-program/recipients
• Diversity and inclusion in cancer clinical trials - CALD project (www.uts.edu.au/cst/cald): addressing the underrepresentation of Arabic communities in clinical research. Funded by Cancer Institute NSW.
• Bright light therapy for the prevention of delirium in hospitalised adults with advanced cancer – BLiPD project: pilot feasibility trial with an inclusive recruitment strategy for Arabic, Chinese and Vietnamese participants. Funded through various schemes including UTS Faculty of Health Seed Funding and NIDUS.
Abstracts this author is presenting: