A/Prof Marian Burr is a clinician scientist and research group leader at the Australian National University, and an anatomical pathologist at Canberra Hospital. After undertaking medical training in the UK, Marian completed a PhD in immunology at the University of Cambridge with Prof Paul Lehner, followed by specialist clinical training in anatomical pathology. In 2015 she was awarded a Cancer Research UK Clinician Scientist Fellowship to establish a cancer immunology research program in Cambridge, and subsequently in Melbourne, where she trained in cancer epigenetics with Prof Mark Dawson at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. In 2021, she established a research laboratory at ANU as a Snow Medical Fellow and NHMRC Investigator. Combining her interests in immunology, epigenetics and lung cancer pathology, her group aims to identify and understand the molecular mechanisms by which cancer cells evade immune destruction with the aim of developing new therapeutic strategies to overcome immunotherapy resistance.