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Professor Wayne Tilley co-convenes the 2nd Nuclear Receptors Conference

Nuclear receptors are critical determinants of everyday health. They drive key processes at every stage from development and reproduction to ageing and cancer. Professor Tilley was Co-Convenor and Chairperson at this year’s meeting which had the theme of "New Roles for Nuclear Receptors in Development, Health and Disease". The 2020 meeting brought together many of the leading experts in nuclear receptor research from across the globe to generate meaningful idea exchanges and interactions that will help to further shape this influential field.

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Rayzel Fernandes - PhD conferral

Congratulations to Rayzel Fernandes on the conferral of her doctoral degree entitled The role of microRNA-194 in prostate cancer progression”. Rayzel’s project was supported by an International Postgraduate Research Scholarship/ Australian Postgraduate Award, as well as a Freemason’s Foundation Centre for Men’s Health PhD Scholarship top-up award. Rayzel will be leaving the DRMCRL to take up a post-doctoral position at Imperial College London.

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Professor Wayne Tilley co-convenes the 15th Indo-Australian Biotechnology Conference in Adelaide

The 15th Indo-Australian Biotechnology Conference, held biennially in Australia, was hosted by the DRMCRL on 16-18 November in Adelaide.

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NHMRC 2020 Ideas Grant success for DRMCRL

The DRMCRL is excited to announce we have been awarded an NHMRC Ideas Grant for funding commencing in 2020. Professor Wayne Tilley will be the PI for the project entitled “A combinatorial drug strategy to target lethal forms of breast cancer” which will address a critical unmet need by combining new treatment strategies in the most lethal forms of breast cancer.

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Dr Jean Winter speaks at the 10th Functional High Throughput Technologies Australia meeting

Dr Winter was invited to present her work onHigh throughput drug screening in breast and prostate cancer using an innovative cell morphology-based analytical pipeline at the 10th Functional High Throughput Technologies Australia meeting held at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU, Canberra on 30-31 October.

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Dr Iza Denis presents at the ESA 2019 Conference

Dr Denis was invited to present her research work at the combined Endocrine Society of Australia (ESA) and Society for Reproductive Biology Annual Meeting in Sydney, 18-21 August. Iza’s presentation entitled “Androgen Receptor: A Soloist in a Breast Cancer Symphony  was very well received.

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Daffodil Day

The Daffodil Day Appeal is Cancer Council’s most iconic and much-loved fundraising campaign. It is a day for Australians to give hope to those affected by all cancers by donating to support a cancer free future. This year, researchers at the DRMCRL volunteered in fund-raising activities across Adelaide to support the Cancer Council’s aim to raise more than $4 million for life-saving cancer research.

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Dr Luke Selth inaugural recipient of the Rob Sutherland Award at 7th International PacRim Breast & Prostate Cancer Meeting

Congratulations to Dr Luke Selth as the recipient of the inaugural Rob Sutherland Award at this meeting.  Dr Selth presented his research work on “The epigenetic and transcriptional landscape of neuroendocrine prostate cancer”.

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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.

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