BMBS FRACS PhD Harshita Pant is an otorhinolaryngologist, head and neck surgeon with sub-specialty expertise in rhinology and skull-base surgery and is an academic Professor at the University of Adelaide. She completed her PhD in immunology (Uni Adelaide) and surgical training with the RACS and undertook clinical fellowship in advanced sinus and skull-base surgery at the Cranial Base Centre, University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre, USA. Professor Pant is Group Leader at the Adelaide Centre for Epigenetics (Uni Adelaide) and Clinical Lead at the Allergy and Cancer Immunology Laboratory at the Centre of Cancer Biology (SA Pathology and Uni of South Australia). She has built a strong research focus in chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) and severe asthma with publications in major specialised journals. She has developed a substantial trait-based transformative research capacity for precision treatments, including monoclonal antibody therapies, for this patient cohort that is funded by grants from the NHMRC and the MRFF. Professor Pant is currently building a head and neck cancer research group with a focus in the tumour microenvironment and immunological determinants of metastasis. She is committed to mentoring medical and higher degree research students and aspiring ENT surgeons in Australia and overseas through her leadership at Uni Adelaide and in RACS Global Health program. She holds patents in novel therapies for CRS patients that she is currently commercialising and is key opinion leader for several pharmaceutical companies.