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The Cancer Institute NSW funds world-class translational research in NSW through the Translational Program Grants (TPG). Cancer Council NSW is a committed partner of the scheme and will conduct consumer review of the full propoal round of 2021 applications.

This month is Ovarian Cancer awareness month, so we caught up with Associate Professor Therese Becker who talked about the ovarian cancer research being conducted at the Centre for CTC Diagnostics & Research (CCDR).
The Cancer Institute NSW funds world-class translational research in NSW through the Translational Program Grants (TPG). Cancer Council NSW is a committed partner of the scheme and will conduct consumer review of the full propoal round of 2021 applications.

If anyone has got work/life balance right, it’s Professor Shalini Vinod, radiation oncologist at Liverpool’s Cancer Therapy Centre in Liverpool Hospital.

am Tanzila Khan, a PhD student. My research interest focuses on interaction of different signalling pathways in prostate cancer.

I am Dr. Joseph William Po, a translational cancer researcher. I manage the CONCERT Biobank operations located at the Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research.

I am Dr Tamiem Adam, a specialist medical oncologist (MBChB, FRACP), PhD candidate and conjoint associated lecturer at the University of Western Sydney.

I am Dr Adeola Bamgboje-Ayodele, a postdoctoral research fellow in health informatics within the Psycho-Oncology Research Group at the Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research and a conjoint lecturer at South Western Sydney Clinical School, UNSW Sydney.

I am Dr Yafeng Ma and I work in Medical Oncology Research Group under supervision of A Prof. Therese Becker at Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research.

I am Dr. Zhihong Xu, a postdoc at Pancreatic Research Group, South Western Sydney Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney and Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research.

Vikneswary Batumalai
When Translational Research Fellow (SWSLHD/Ingham), Vikneswary Batumalai (Vicky), was a young girl she watched her grandmother undergo radiation therapy and was in awe of the work of the radiation team. This awe turned to passion when she decided, not only to pursue a career in radiation therapy, but also to a life helping cancer patients.

Left to right: Dr. Vikneswary Batumalai, Dr. Vincent Ho, Dr. Pei Ding,
Dr. Srinivasa P. Pothula and Prof Valsamma Eapen.
Three of five Ingham Research Excellence Awards have been awarded to CONCERT members earlier this month.

Left to right: Dr. Vikneswary Batumalai, Dr. Vincent Ho, Dr. Pei Ding,
Dr. Srinivasa P. Pothula and Prof Valsamma Eapen.
Three of five Ingham Research Excellence Awards have been awarded to CONCERT members earlier this month.

CONCERT Director, Scientia Professor Michael Barton OAM and CONCERT members, Dr Vikneswary Batumalai, Dr Tony Pang and Ms Natalie Stunnell have all received awards at this year’s UNSW SWS Precinct Research Awards.

Professor Afaf Girgis
In 1969, a nine year old Egyptian girl with not a word of English arrived on Australian soil. 51 years later, that little girl has become one of Australia’s leading researchers in cancer survivorship and psycho-oncology and is this month’s CONCERT member of the month.

CONCERT Biobank has released its 2019/2020 Annual report.

Seven strategies aimed at improving cancer research participation by people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds have been developed at a co-design workshop attended by 45 participants, earlier this year.

Dr Gabriel Gabriel
A plethora of research exists showing that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in Australia have poorer cancer survival outcomes than their non-Aboriginal counterparts. Seeking to uncover the reasons why these rates differ so markedly is the aim of Dr Gabriel Gabriel’s project which was awarded a CONCERT Grant earlier this year.

IIngham Institute invites applications to the following lung cancer research to improve Lung Cancer patient outcomes in one or more of the following areas:

In the seven years following its establishment, CONCERT’s Biobank supported a total of nine research projects with specimens. In little over one year (from July 2019 to August 2020), the biobank has matched that number thanks to the hard work of the dedicated biobank team and manager, Dr. Joseph Po.

We don’t often hear about lung cancer in the media despite the fact that it kills more people in Australia each year than any other cancer. Logic would dictate that due to its high mortality rate, funding into research would be paramount. Sadly, lung cancer receives a fraction of research funding compared to other cancers such as breast and prostate cancer.

Verena Wu, Research Assistant, Psycho-oncology team, Ingham Institute
Verena Wu's story is not new. It is the story of many migrant children who, at an early age, became their parent’s voice, helping them maneuver through daily cultural and language barriers.

CONCERT is excited to announce this year’s Early Career Researcher (ECR) Grant recipients: Dr Kara Vine-Perrow from the Targeted Cancer Research Laboratory at the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute (IHMRI), University of Wollongong and Dr Gabriel Gabriel from University of New South Wales (UNSW).

Exciting changes are happening in medical oncology across Wollongong and Shoalhaven hospitals. Driven by the Head of the Medical Oncology Department, Dr Lorraine Chantrill, these changes are seeing an increased focus on research with the aim of improving outcomes for cancer patients in the future.
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