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DRMCRL students Danielle Fang and Ebithal Mustafa awarded prizes
PhD student Danielle Fang was awarded an Innovation and Commercial Partners Prize at the 2020 Virtual Florey Postgraduate Research Conference in October, 2020. Her poster was entitled "USP2: A key driver in lethal prostate cancer?" In November 2020, PhD student Ebithal Mustafa was awarded the Australian Women in Endocrinology Prize at the 63rd ESA Annual Scientific meeting (virtual). Her poster entitled "TFAP-2β interacts with AR to determine the phenotype and growth of molecular apocrine breast cancer" was the highest ranked science poster in the e-poster award finalist group. Congratulations to Danielle and Ebi!
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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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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.
Mother’s Day Classic – National Breast Cancer Foundation’s (NBCF) annual fund raiser
Every single day, 50 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in Australia. University of Adelaide researchers at the DRMCRL work on research programs to improve disease outcomes by deeply understanding the role of sex hormones in tumour behaviour. Their research will be used to develop new drugs and treatments.
Dr Luke Selth – inaugural Rob Sutherland Award recipient
Dr Luke Selth from the DRMCRL was the inaugural Rob Sutherland Award recipient at\ this year’s PacRim meeting. This award, presented to an outstanding early/mid-career researcher, was the awarded by Rob Sutherland’s daughter and wife, Sarah and Cheryl Sutherland, at the PacRim Meeting Big Bash conference dinner at Seppeltsfield on last evening of the meeting.
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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”.
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.
DRMCRL hosted a visiting lecture by Professor Anna Philpott, University of Cambridge, UK
Prof Philpott, Deputy Head of the Department of Oncology, Hutchinson / MRC Research Centre, Cambridge BioMedical Campus, University of Cambridge, UK gave a seminar on "Controlling the balance between proliferation and differentiation in development and cancer", AHMS Bldg, University of Adelaide September 28, 2018. Prof Philpott is a developmental biologist with a long-standing interest in how cells in developing embryos control the decision to divide or to differentiate in co-ordination with cell cycle events, as well as how this co-ordination is subverted in cancers.
