Professor Ian Davis

Professor Ian Davis is a medical oncologist with over 30 years’ experience and primary clinical and research focus in genitourinary cancers. He founded and chairs the ANZUP (Australian and New Zealand Urogenital and Prostate) Cancer Trials Group and is the global co-chair of international ANZUP ENZAMET trial. This trial demonstrated improved survival with enzalutamide for […]

Professor Phillip Darcy

Professor Phillip Darcy is an NHMRC Principal Research Fellow and Group Leader at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. His work has been pivotal in developing novel T cell-based immunotherapy approaches for cancer patients. In particular, his studies involving the development of technology using gene‐modified T cells expressing chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) in preclinical models has […]

Professor Jennifer Couper

Professor Jenny Couper is a practising clinician and researcher who leads innovations for children at-risk or with type 1 diabetes. Her research is in the prevention of type 1 diabetes and the prevention of cardiovascular complications. She heads the first global investigation of the early life origins of type 1 diabetes and co-leads prevention trials. […]

Professor Leonid Churilov

Professor Leonid Churilov is a clinical biostatistician who led complex and comprehensive design and analysis of acute and recovery stroke trials that resulted in global changes in clinical practice, and are internationally recognized through multiple publications in the highest impact medical journals including NEJM, The Lancet and JAMA. Professor Churilov led the development, and wide […]

Professor David Burgner

Professor David Burgner is a practising paediatric infectious diseases physician, leads the Inflammatory Origins Group and co-leads the LifeCourse longitudinal observational cohorts initiative at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. He is Education Officer for the World Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases. Professor Burgner is an international authority on understanding the susceptibility and consequences to childhood infection […]

Professor Susan Fletcher

Professor Susan Fletcher is Senior Principal Research Fellow at Murdoch University and in 2020 was appointed Chief Scientific Officer (fractional position) at ASX-listed biotech PYC Therapeutics. Alongside her collaborator Professor Steve Wilton, she pioneered ‘molecular drugs’ to treat inherited disease by altering the gene message to overcome disease-causing mutations. In 2016, 2019 and 2021, the […]

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