Topic: Cancer treatment

This project aims to discover how a particular protein called BRD4 leads to the development and growth of tumours in children with TERT-rearranged neuroblastoma.

This project aims to develop a tailored treatment approach for pancreatic cancer, providing more effective options and boosting the chances of a good outcome.

This project will lead to a clinical trial of a developed test to ensure the right patients receive and benefit from focal therapy for prostate cancer.

This project would be a significant step forward in development of personalised treatments and should improve survival for this aggressive cancer.

The ultimate goal of the project is to inform appropriate care and improve outcomes for pregnant women with cancer and their babies.

This project will develop vital infrastructure that will make it easier for clinicians to choose the right treatment for individual patients.

This project will test and validate how new technologies could be utilised to monitor the concentration of chemotherapy in a patient’s blood in real-time.

Professor John Rasko

If this treatment is shown to be effective, it will provide much-needed hope for patients who receive the devastating diagnosis of pancreatic cancer.

Professor David Gottlieb

Prof David Gottlieb’s research has discovered that the treatment of using enhanced white blood cells to fight infection and leukemia can reduce side effects in bone marrow transplant recipients.

A team of researchers led by Dr Nicole Verrills has been investigating if a new ‘gene marker’ can predict which breast cancer patients may have poorer treatment outcomes.