Overview

• Overview of program: February 2010

Translational Research

In the videos below each recipient of a Translational Research grant from the Victorian Cancer Agency in 2009 provides an overview of their project.

• Associate Professor David Thomas: Translational research program in sarcoma.
• Professor Graham Giles: IMPROVE: Improving management by participatory research in oncology; a Victorian experiment.
• Associate Professor Grant McArthur: Translating advances in the science of melanoma to better patient outcomes.
• Professor Jeff Szer: Epigenetics and cancer therapy.
• Professor Jennifer Philip: Understanding the supportive and palliative care needs of patients with primary malignant glioma.
• Associate Professor Mark Jenkins: What do mutation-carrying families understand about colorectal cancer gene testing and personal risk, and how does that predict prevention behaviour?
• Associate Professor Michael Jefford: A randomised controlled trial evaluating a nurse-led survivorship care package (SurvivorCare) for bowel cancer survivors.
• Professor Miles Prince: Epigenetics and cancer therapy.
• Associate Professor Peter Gibbs: Improving treatment selection of colon cancer using epidemiological and molecular markers.
• Professor Rodney Hicks: Biological and genomic predictors of response to molecular therapy of neuroendocrine tumours. 

Victorian Breast Cancer Research Consortium

The Victorian Cancer Agency provides funding for translational research to the Victorian Breast Cancer Research Consortium (VBCRC). In the videos below each researcher who received a VBCRC grant in 2009 provides an overview of their project.

• Professor Evan Simpson: Oestrogen and breast cancer
• Associate Professor Geoffrey Lindeman and Associate Professor Jane Visvader: Implementing clinical and translational research in hereditary cancer.
• Professor Ian Campbell: Identification of genes involved in the predisposition and progression of breast cancer.
• Professor John Hopper: Translational research to better use genetic testing to reduce the morbidity and mortality of breast cancer in Victoria.
• Associate Professor Melissa Southey: Molecular determinants of mammographic density.
• Associate Professor Ricky Johnstone: Development and testing novel anti-breast cancer therapies.