Professor Wayne Tilley co-convenes 7th International PacRim Breast and Prostate Cancer Meeting
The PacRim Meeting series is a highly regarded think-tank meeting that focuses on breast and prostate cancer research. The 7th meeting in this series commenced on Sunday 17 March and a theme of “Breast and prostate cancer – more similar than different” with the view to leveraging similarities between these two cancers to develop new therapeutic targets and predictive biomarkers to improve disease outcomes.
Highlights of the 7th PacRim Meeting included the Ron Ross Award and Oration by Dr Funmi Olopade MD (University of Chicago), and the inaugural Rob Sutherland Award. Held in the heart of the Barossa Valley, South Australia, the 7th PacRim Meeting was attended by over 70% international and national participants and was convened by Professor Wayne Tilley and Associate Professor Elgene Lim.