He is a clinical academic and haematologist attached to the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney. Following the award of his PhD in 2004, he undertook post-doctoral research with Professors Bertie Göttgens and Tony Green at the University of Cambridge as an RG Menzies/CJ Martin research fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. He returned to Australia in 2008 to set up a research program in stem cell biology and cancer. The major research themes of the Pimanda laboratory are the application of genomic technologies to investigate transcriptional networks in normal haematopoietic stem and leukaemic cells, gaining insights into the biology of and improving treatment outcomes in MDS and AML, and developing clinically appropriate tissue reprogramming protocols.