Centre for Cancer Biology in Adelaide, South Australia | Educational research centre

Centre for Cancer Biology

Locality: Adelaide, South Australia

Address: UniSA Building, corner of North Terrace & Morphett Street bridge 5001 Adelaide, SA, Australia

Website: http://www.centreforcancerbiology.org.au

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24.01.2022 Congratulations to the CCB's Prof Hamish Scott and A/Prof Christopher Barnett from the Women's and Children's Hospital for being selected to lead this significant research project to discover what proportion of stillbirths and perinatal deaths can be diagnosed by genomic analyses. www.unisa.edu.au//south-australia-to-lead-$3.4-million-st/

22.01.2022 In case you missed it, have a read of this article from the Sunday Mail in which CCB PhD student Alicia Byrne helped identify a rare genetic disease that causes severe neurodegeneration in infants.

20.01.2022 It's great to see the media coverage overnight, highlighting our scientists' Breakthrough In How the Body Responds To Breast Cancer. Congratulations A/Prof Michael Samuel and Drs Marina Kochetkova and Sarah Boyle. www.facebook.com//vid/vb.233842463347174/285033509338844/

17.01.2022 A report on the 9th Barossa Meeting: Cell Signalling in Cancer Medicine has been published in Cell Death & Disease. Have a read here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41419-020-2364-9

17.01.2022 Please join us in our quest to #forkcancer by donating to our Longest Table. www.thelongesttable.com.au/table/centre-for-cancer-biology/

15.01.2022 Congrats to Dr Tessa Gargett who has been awarded highly-competitive funding from The Hospital Research Foundation towards her research treating childhood brain cancer with the project: New cell therapies for childhood brain cancer!

14.01.2022 Congratulations to Dan Thomson who has had his paper ‘Aberrant RAG-mediated recombination contributes to multiple structural rearrangements in lymphoid blast crisis of chronic myeloid leukemia’ published in the journal Leukemia!

13.01.2022 Thank you to everyone who came and supported our CCB morning tea fundraiser for those affected by the Kangaroo Island bushfires. We have raised $815! If you would like to donate please visit: https://www.gofundme.com/f/fundraiser-for-kangaroo-island-f

09.01.2022 Congratulations to the CCB's Lisa Ebert who has been awarded a 2020 Tour de Cure grant for her research into the ‘Development of a new therapy for glioblastoma based on chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells’!

08.01.2022 Have a read of this new paper from PhD student Amin Zadeh Shirazi titled, "DeepSurvNet: deep survival convolutional network for brain cancer survival rate classification based on histopathological images": https://rdcu.be/b2qX9

04.01.2022 Alicia Byrne and colleagues at the CCB continue to decode genetic diseases resulting in stillbirth, helping families have healthy babies. They have published a new paper titled 'Pseudodiastrophic dysplasia expands the known phenotypic spectrum of defects in proteoglycan biosynthesis'. Have a read here: https://jmg.bmj.com//early/2020/01/26/jmedgenet-2019-10670

03.01.2022 Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Valentina Poltavets from our Tumour Microenvironment Lab, who won the 3-Minute Thesis People’s Choice Award at the UniSA Clinical and Health Sciences event this week #cancerresearch

02.01.2022 Watch the CCB's Dr Lisa Ebert speak about her research into Immunotherapy which has just received further funding to allow the research to continue

02.01.2022 Congratulations to SA Pathology and CCB PhD student Dr Naranie Shanmuganathan! She has won the 2020 Simpson Prize for Cancer Research for her paper published in the journal Blood titled: Modeling the safe minimum frequency of molecular monitoring for CML patients attempting treatment-free remission. The award recognises outstanding research undertaken at the Royal Adelaide Hospital or SA Pathology and is presented for the best published paper by an early career researcher. Read it here: https://ashpublications.org//Modeling-the-safe-minimum-fre