Jane Visvader is a scientist specialising in breast cancer research who works for the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, Australia.

[1] Visvader holds a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Adelaide having studied structure and function of citrus exocortis viroid[2] After her PhD [3] in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Adelaide , she was a postdoctoral researcher with Inder Verma (Salk Institute, San Diego) and Jerry Adams (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI)).

[4] She worked at the Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston before returning to Victoria in 1997 to establish a Breast Cancer Laboratory at WEHI.

[8] Visvader is a board member of the Cancer Council Victoria, Medical & Scientific Committee.

[9] Visvader is a named inventor on five patents relating to cancer research focused on stem cell isolation and diagnostics.