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Professor Martin Tattersall, Chairman, CCAF Medical Grants Advisory Committee:
"Successful researchers need commitment and an ability to think laterally and cross-fertilise ideas. Above all, they need mentoring and support."
That’s the view of Professor Martin Tattersall, Chairman of Cure Cancer Australia’s Medical Grants Advisory Committee, and he should know. After three decades of work in clinical and cancer research, the Professor of Cancer Medicine at the University of Sydney has mentored some truly exceptional researchers. A renowned advocate of young cancer investigators, Professor Tattersalll acknowledges that the more support researchers get when they’re young, the more likely they are to have great ideas. “Most brilliant ideas occur before you’re 40,” he points out, “which is why I’m so supportive of Cure Cancer Australia’s concept.”
2011 Can Too Grant Recipients
| 2011 |
Dr Stephen Lane, QIMR, QLD: Treatment of blood diseases by targeting the disease-causing stem cells
Dr Ashley P Ng, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, VIC: Identification of genetic interactions predisposing to leukaemia
Dr Jennifer Stone, University of Melbourne, VIC: Understanding mammographic density and making it a clinically-useful predictor of breast cancer risk
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Dr Catherine Elizabeth (Liz) Caldon, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, NSW: Co-operative oncogenesis between deregulated cell proliferation and DNA damage checkpoints in breast cancer
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Dr Xiaomeng Zhang, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, VIC: The role of the Hippo tumour suppressor pathway in human breast cancer
Dr. Luc Furic, Monash University, VIC: Targeting the Eukaryotic Translation Initiation Factor 4E to treat Prostate Cancer
Dr Xue Qin Yu, Cancer Council NSW, NSW: Projecting prevalence by stage of care for prostate cancer and estimating future health service needs
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Dr Jeremy David Henson, Children's Medical Research Institute, NSW: Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres (ALT) in lung cancer: analysis of effects on patient outcomes and development of a blood test.
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Dr Heidi Hilton, University of Sydney at Westmead Institute for Cancer Research, Westmead Millennium Institute, NSW: The impact of aberrant progesterone signalling on lineage specification during early malignant transformation
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Dr David Ziegler, Sydney Children's Hospital, NSW: Identification of anti-apoptotic signalling pathways in malignant gliomas
Dr Loretta Lau, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW: Telomere Maintenance in Neuroblastoma
Dr Caroline Ford, University of NSW, NSW: Targeting of the Wnt signalling pathway by Foxy-5 – a new epigenetic therapy for ovarian cancer
Read more about Caroline's research
Dr Katie Ashton, University of Newcastle, NSW: A molecular genetic investigation of MUTYH in melanoma development |
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