Professor Luen Bik To
MBBS (HK), MD (Adel), MRCP (UK), FRCPA, FRACP

Professor To directs the clinical, laboratory and research haematology services on the RAH/IMVS campus, chairs the RAH/IMVS Research Committee and serves as an Executive for the Hanson Institute, the umbrella body for all biomedical research on campus. He was the Head of the Clinical Haematology Unit in RAH prior to assuming the Head of Haematology RAH/IMVS. He considers the most important developments in the Clinical Unit as the establishment of a comprehensive, consensus and evidence driven patient management protocol system, the promotion of high quality clinical trials to attract new treatment agents and staff to the campus and the continuing improvement in the patient journey for patients attending the Unit.

He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. His group pioneered the mobilisation of autologous peripheral blood haemopoietic progenitors and over 15 years lay the scientific and clinical foundations for peripheral blood stem cell mobilisation and transplantation (BLOOD review 1997) and demonstrated the possibility of ex vivo expansion and maturation of haemopoietic progenitors to reduce post transplant cytopenia.

Professor To introduced the technology of CD34+ haemopoietic progenitor cells selection for transplantation to Australia in 1995, spawning a number of tissue engineering projects. The group was the first in Australia to achieve TGA accreditation in allogeneic haemopoietic stem cell transplantation in the IMVS Goods Manufacturing Practice (GMP) Standard Cell Processing Laboratory in 2003, and carried out the first mesenchymal stromal cell infusion for the treatment of steroid resistant graft versus host disease in Australia. His other interests are leukaemia and myeloma biology and is the co-founder of the Australian Myeloma Forum.

The blend of clinical, diagnostic and research activities of the Division provides a sound foundation for training and teaching. The Division boasts one of the highest pass rates in the Joint RACP/RCPA Haematology Examination.

Prof To runs a weekly consultation clinic on the RAH/IMVS campus and a fortnightly clinic at the IMVS Highbury Collection Centre. He consults on a wide spectrum of haematological malignancies and various iron and anaemic disorders.