Dr Sandra Brosda

Research Fellow

Frazer Institute
Faculty of Medicine

Overview

Dr Sandra Brosda is a Research Fellow within the Surgical Oncology group led by Professor Andrew Barbour.

Dr Brosda was awarded a PhD in bioinformatics and cancer genetics from the University of Queensland in November 2020. Her research focused on biomarker discovery and intra-tumour heterogeneity and tumour evolution in oesophageal adenocarcinoma (OAC). In 2021, Dr Brosda was awarded a Cure Cancer Australia PdCCRS grant and an MSH project grant to further investigate tumour evolution to improve precision medicine in OAC.

She has been involved in research projects covering genetics, epigenetics, spatial transcriptomics, radiomics, ctDNA and quality of life assessments in the context of cancer. Overall, her research applies bioinformatics tools and approaches to cancer genomics to improve precision medicine and health outcomes for patients with melanoma, oesophago-gastric cancer and pancreatic cancer.

Research Interests

  • Bioinformatics
  • Intra-tumour heterogeneity
  • Tumour evolution
  • Cancer genetics

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
  • Masters (Coursework) of Bioinformatics, University of Bielefeld
  • Bachelor of Bioinformatics, University of Bielefeld

Publications

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Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

  • Doctor Philosophy

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Publications

Journal Article

  • Belle, Clemence J., Lonie, James M., Brosda, Sandra and Barbour, Andrew P. (2023). Tumour microenvironment influences response to treatment in oesophageal adenocarcinoma. Frontiers in Immunology, 14 1330635, 1330635. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1330635

  • Lonie, James M., Brosda, Sandra, Bonazzi, Vanessa F., Aoude, Lauren G., Patel, Kalpana, Brown, Ian, Sharma, Sowmya, Lampe, Guy, Addala, Venkateswar, Koufariotis, Lambros T., Wood, Scott, Waddell, Nicola, Dolcetti, Riccardo and Barbour, Andrew P. (2023). The oesophageal adenocarcinoma tumour immune microenvironment dictates outcomes with different modalities of neoadjuvant therapy – results from the AGITG DOCTOR trial and the cancer evolution biobank. Frontiers in Immunology, 14 1220129, 1-15. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1220129

  • Aoude, Lauren G., Brosda, Sandra, Ng, Jessica, Lonie, James M., Belle, Clemence J., Patel, Kalpana, Koufariotis, Lambros T., Wood, Scott, Atkinson, Victoria, Smithers, B. Mark, Pearson, John V., Waddell, Nicola, Barbour, Andrew P. and Bonazzi, Vanessa F. (2023). ctDNA: a promising biomarker for predicting recurrence in BRAF-negative melanoma patients. Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, 25 (10), 771-781. doi: 10.1016/j.jmoldx.2023.06.014

  • Bonazzi, Vanessa F., Aoude, Lauren G., Brosda, Sandra, Bradford, Julia J., Lonie, James M., Loffler, Kelly A., Gartside, Michael G., Patel, Kalpana, Mukhopadhyay, Pamela, Keane, Colm, Gebski, Val, Kench, James G., Goldstein, David, Waddell, Nicola, Barbour, Andrew P. and the Australasian Gastro‐Intestinal Trials Group (AGITG) GAP investigators (2023). C‐reactive protein is a prognostic biomarker in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma patients. Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology. doi: 10.1111/ajco.13993

  • M. Naeini, Marjan, Newell, Felicity, Aoude, Lauren G., Bonazzi, Vanessa F., Patel, Kalpana, Lampe, Guy, Koufariotis, Lambros T., Lakis, Vanessa, Addala, Venkateswar, Kondrashova, Olga, Johnston, Rebecca L., Sharma, Sowmya, Brosda, Sandra, Holmes, Oliver, Leonard, Conrad, Wood, Scott, Xu, Qinying, Thomas, Janine, Walpole, Euan, Tao Mai, G., Ackland, Stephen P., Martin, Jarad, Burge, Matthew, Finch, Robert, Karapetis, Christos S., Shannon, Jenny, Nott, Louise, Bohmer, Robert, Wilson, Kate ... Waddell, Nicola (2023). Multi-omic features of oesophageal adenocarcinoma in patients treated with preoperative neoadjuvant therapy. Nature Communications, 14 (1) 3155, 3155. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-38891-x

  • Molendijk, Jeffrey, Kolka, Cathryn M., Cairns, Henry, Brosda, Sandra, Mohamed, Ahmed, Shah, Alok K., Brown, Ian, Hodson, Mark P., Hennessy, Thomas, Liu, Guanghao, Stoll, Thomas, Richards, Renee S., Gartside, Michael, Patel, Kalpana, Clemons, Nicholas J., Phillips, Wayne A., Barbour, Andrew, Westerhuis, Johan A. and Hill, Michelle M. (2022). Elevation of fatty acid desaturase 2 in esophageal adenocarcinoma increases polyunsaturated lipids and may exacerbate bile acid‐induced DNA damage. Clinical and Translational Medicine, 12 (5) e810, 1-19. doi: 10.1002/ctm2.810

  • Bonazzi, V. F., Aoude, L. G., Brosda, S., Lonie, J. M., Patel, K., Bradford, J. J., Koufariotis, L. T., Wood, S., Smithers, B. Mark, Waddell, N. and Barbour, A. P. (2022). ctDNA as a biomarker of progression in oesophageal adenocarcinoma. ESMO Open, 7 (3) 100452, 100452. doi: 10.1016/j.esmoop.2022.100452

  • Kolka, Cathryn M., Webster, Julie, Lepletier, Ailin, Winterford, Clay, Brown, Ian, Richards, Renee S., Zelek, Wioleta M., Cao, Yilang, Khamis, Ramlah, Shanmugasundaram, Karthik B., Wuethrich, Alain, Trau, Matt, Brosda, Sandra, Barbour, Andrew, Shah, Alok K., Eslick, Guy D., Clemons, Nicholas J., Morgan, B. Paul and Hill, Michelle M. (2022). C5b-9 membrane attack complex formation and extracellular vesicle shedding in Barrett’s esophagus and esophageal adenocarcinoma. Frontiers in Immunology, 13 842023. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.842023

  • Aoude, Lauren G., Wong, Bernadette, Bonazzi, Vanessa F, Brosda, Sandra, Walters, Shaun B., Koufariotis, Lambros T., Naeini, Marjan M., Pearson, John V, Oey, Harald, Patel, Kalpana, Bradford, Julia J., Bloxham, Conor J, Atkinson, Victoria, Law, Phillip, Strutton, Geoffrey, Bayley, Gerard, Yang, Samuel, Smithers, B. Mark, Waddell, Nicola, Miles, Kenneth and Barbour, Andrew P. (2021). Radiomics biomarkers correlate with CD8 expression and predict immune signatures in melanoma patients. Molecular Cancer Research, 19 (6) molcanres.1038.2020, 950-956. doi: 10.1158/1541-7786.mcr-20-1038

  • Gandhi, Maher K., Hoang, Thanh, Law, Soi C., Brosda, Sandra, O'Rourke, Kacey, Tobin, Joshua W. D., Vari, Frank, Murigneux, Valentine, Fink, J. Lynn, Gunawardana, Jay, Gould, Clare M., Oey, Harald, Bednarska, Karolina, Delecluse, Susanne, Trappe, Ralf Ulrich, de Long, Lilia Merida, Sabdia, Muhammed Bilal, Bhagat, Govind, Hapgood, Greg, Blyth, Emily, Clancy, Leighton E., Wight, Joel, Hawkes, Eliza A., Rimsza, Lisa M., Maguire, Alanna, Bojarczuk, Kamil, Chapuy, Bjoern and Keane, Colm (2021). EBV-associated primary CNS lymphoma occurring after immunosuppression is a distinct immunobiological entity. Blood, 137 (11), 1468-1477. doi: 10.1182/blood.2020008520

  • Veenstra, M. M. K., Smithers, B. M., Visser, E., Edholm, D., Brosda, S., Thomas, J. M., Gotley, D. C., Thomson, I. G., Wijnhoven, B. P. L. and Barbour, A. P. (2021). Complications and survival after hybrid and fully minimally invasive oesophagectomy. BJS Open, 5 (1) zraa033, 1-7. doi: 10.1093/bjsopen/zraa033

  • Aoude, Lauren G., Bonazzi, Vanessa F., Brosda, Sandra, Patel, Kalpana, Koufariotis, Lambros T., Oey, Harald, Nones, Katia, Wood, Scott, Pearson, John V., Lonie, James M., Arneil, Melissa, Atkinson, Victoria, Smithers, B. Mark, Waddell, Nicola and Barbour, Andrew P. (2020). Pathogenic germline variants are associated with poor survival in stage III/IV melanoma patients. Scientific Reports, 10 (1) 17687, 17687. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-74956-3

  • Blunk, Sebastian, Hoffer, Jeroen, Brosda, Sandra, de Heer, Martine I., Sturrock, Craig J. and Mooney, Sacha J. (2020). Impact of fruit orientation and pelleting material on water uptake and germination performance in artificial substrate for sugar beet. PLoS ONE, 15 (5) e0232875, e0232875. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0232875

  • van Hootegem, S. J. M., Smithers, B. M., Gotley, D. C., Brosda, S., Thomson, I. G., Thomas, J. M., Gartside, M. and Barbour, A. P. (2019). Baseline neutrophil–lymphocyte ratio holds no prognostic value for esophageal and junctional adenocarcinoma in patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Diseases of the Esophagus, 33 (6). doi: 10.1093/dote/doz082

  • van Hootegem, Sander J. M., Smithers, B. Mark, Gotley, David C., Brosda, Sandra, Thomson, Iain G., Thomas, Janine M., Gartside, Michael, van Lanschot, Jan J. B., Lagarde, Sjoerd M., Wijnhoven, Bas P. L. and Barbour, Andrew P. (2019). The impact of signet ring cell differentiation on outcome in patients with esophageal and gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma. Annals of Surgical Oncology, 26 (8), 2375-2384. doi: 10.1245/s10434-019-07322-x

  • Newell, Felicity, Patel, Kalpana, Gartside, Michael, Krause, Lutz, Brosda, Sandra, Aoude, Lauren G., Loffler, Kelly A., Bonazzi, Vanessa F., Patch, Ann-Marie, Kazakoff, Stephen H., Holmes, Oliver, Xu, Qinying, Wood, Scott, Leonard, Conrad, Lampe, Guy, Lord, Reginald V., Whiteman, David C., Pearson, John V., Nones, Katia, Waddell, Nicola and Barbour, Andrew P. (2019). Complex structural rearrangements are present in high-grade dysplastic Barrett's oesophagus samples. BMC Medical Genomics, 12 (1) 31, 31. doi: 10.1186/s12920-019-0476-9

  • Krause, Lutz, Nones, Katia , Loffler, Kelly A., Nancarrow, Derek, Oey, Harald , Tang, Yue Hang, Wayte, Nicola J., Patch, Ann Marie, Patel, Kalpana , Brosda, Sandra, Manning, Suzanne, Lampe, Guy, Clouston, Andrew, Thomas, Janine, Stoye, Jens, Hussey, Damian J., Watson, David I., Lord, Reginald V., Phillips, Wayne A., Gotley, David, Smithers, B. Mark, Whiteman, David C., Hayward, Nicholas K., Grimmond, Sean M., Waddell, Nicola and Barbour, Andrew P. (2016). Identification of the CIMP-like subtype and aberrant methylation of members of the chromosomal segregation and spindle assembly pathways in esophageal adenocarcinoma. Carcinogenesis, 37 (4), 356-365. doi: 10.1093/carcin/bgw018

Conference Publication

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PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

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