DrRayan 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 projects focused on delirium prevention and patient navigation that aim to improve the quality of life and wellbeing of people living with cancer. She is also leading a project to investigate the underrepresentation of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in clinical research with a view to improve health outcomes in these communities.

Current Projects:
• Translating the CALD Navigator Model for NSW Palliative Care Services (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)
• Bright light therapy for the prevention of delirium in hospitalised adults with advanced cancer – BLiPD Clinical Trial