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SCP Newsletter Issue 14

Sydney Cancer Partners is thrilled to announce the recipients of our most recent Seed Grants. Seed Grants were awarded to 15 early and mid-career researchers for a 12-month project that will assist them to make competitive applications for Fellowships or other research funding. Congratulations also to Associate Professor Cherry Koh and team who were awarded ... Read more

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2024 Seed Grant Recipients Announced

Congratulations to the following early and mid-career researchers on their successful applications. Dr Rebekah Laidsaar-Powell. Research Fellow. Psycho-Oncology Cooperative Research Group, School of Psychology, The University of Sydney.Dr Yuchen Feng. NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow, School of Medical Sciences, The University of Sydney.Dr Jixuan (Jessie) Gao. Senior Research Officer, Children’s Medical Research Institute.Dr Ali Azimi. Research Fellow, Westmead Clinical ... Read more

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Growing Ideas & Growing Careers Event

The Growing Ideas & Growing Careers event featured a keynote presentation entitled “The Distracted Academic” by Professor Inger Mewburn, Director of Researcher Development at the Australian National University. Professor Mewburn addressed the challenges academics face in maintaining focus amidst many competing demands for time and attention. She also highlighted practical strategies for managing workload using ... Read more

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SCP Newsletter Issue 13

On Friday 2 February we recognised World Cancer Day at an event in central Sydney, held in partnership with our friends from the SPHERE Cancer CAG and on Australia day we were delighted to hear that SCP members Professors Georgina Long and Richard Scolyer were named the 2024 Australians of the Year. Read all about ... Read more

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2023 Pilot Study and Seed Grant Recipients Announced

Congratulations to the following Sydney Cancer Partners members on their successful applications. Pilot Study Funding RecipientsProfessor Barbara Fazekas de St Groth. Head, Translational Immunology Laboratory, Charles Perkins Centre, Faculty of Medicine & Health, The University of Sydney.Dr Sumit Sahni. Senior Research Fellow, Northern Clinical School and Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Faculty of Medicine & ... Read more

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2024 NSW Australians of the Year

Professors Georgina Long AO and Richard Scolyer AO, co-medical directors of Melanoma Institute Australia, were recognised for an enduring partnership that has transformed melanoma into a largely curable disease and saving many thousands of lives. Read more.

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2023 NSW Premier’s Awards for Outstanding Cancer Research

Sydney Cancer Partners members took out all of the individual awards this year, a testament to the depth of talent across our membership. Congratulations to the following Sydney Cancer Partners members who were award winners. Outstanding Cancer Researcher of the Year.Professor Anthony Gill AM, Professor of Surgical Pathology, The University of Sydney; Senior staff specialist, ... Read more

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SCP Newsletter Issue 11

We have been working hard with our partners Maridulu Budyari Gumal (SPHERE) Cancer CAG and NSW Regional Cancer Research Network on a number of initiatives to enhance collaboration and streamline processes. These have included the announcement of the successful applicants to our joint SCP/SPHERE Strategic Enhancement Grant and the launch of the NSW Cancer Research ... Read more

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Strategic Enhancement Grant recipients announced.

Professor Jeff Holst from UNSW Sydney and Associate Professor James Wilmott from the Melanoma Institute Australia & The University of Sydney will co-lead a project to validate a physiological ex vivo platform to rapidly test novel immunotherapy combinations in patient tumours. Professor Hilda Pickett from the Children’s Medical Research Institute & The University of Sydney and Associate Professor Liz Caldon from ... Read more

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