Associate Professor Hickey guest speaker at the Ovarian Cancer Australia Morning Teal Event in Adelaide today

Associate Professor Theresa Hickey was the guest researcher speaking at the Ovarian Cancer Australia Morning Teal event hosted today by Senator Simon Birmingham (Federal Finance Minister) at the Adelaide Health and Medical Sciences building, University of Adelaide. Theresa’s presentation (I’m OVARY-ACTING for a Breakthrough: Insights from breast cancer) highlighted activating the androgen receptor (AR) with “male” hormones as a new therapeutic approach in breast cancer recently published in Nature Medicine. Theresa discussed how this research has implications for ovarian cancer. Associate Professor Hickey was able to meet and discuss her seminal work on androgens in breast cancer with Senator Birmingham, Professor Peter Hoj (Vice Chancellor, University of Adelaide), Abbie Taylor (Ambassador, Ovarian Cancer Australia), John Gardner MP (Minister for Education, SA) and the many others, including students, present at the function.