Dr Jasper de Boer
Founder, Apex Science
Dr Jasper de Boer
Founder, Apex Science
Dr Jasper de Boer works across the oncology translation pathway, supporting charities, researchers, and biotech companies to move cancer discoveries from bench to bedside.
His work spans research priority setting, translational planning, clinical trial development, and research funding strategy across the cancer research ecosystem in Australia and internationally.
Jasper works in partnership with clinicians, researchers, charities, and founders to connect scientific insight, translational sequencing, and funding decisions so oncology programs can progress toward clinical trials and patient impact.
He has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed publications in oncology and immunology and is among the top 5% of most-cited researchers in his field.
Selected experience includes:
Supporting medical research charities to define research priorities and guide research funding decisions
Designing translational pathways that move discovery research toward clinical testing
Leading national multi-institutional oncology initiatives connecting clinical trial centres across Australia
Securing more than $120 million in research and translational funding supporting oncology programs and infrastructure
Serving in senior leadership roles at ANZCHOG and the VCCC Alliance across clinical trials, collaborative research programs, and translational strategy
Leading translational paediatric oncology research programs at the Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (UCL)
At Apex Science, Jasper works directly with organisations across the oncology ecosystem to strengthen translational pathways and scientific decision-making from discovery to clinical application.