SEMINAR:
  How do Melanomas grow? Biological Paradigms of cancer heterogeneity and progression
		
Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:00 - McCusker Auditorium, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, QQ Block, SCGH, 6 Verdun Street Nedlands 6009
		
Dr Mark Shackleton
Dr Mark Shackleton, one of the world’s leading cancer experts is a
Medical Oncologist and a Group Leader of the Melanoma Research
Laboratory at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. After training in
medical oncology at the Ludwig Institute in Melbourne, Dr Shackleton did
his PhD at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and a post-doctoral
fellowship at the University of Michigan, USA. His research has been
published in journals such as Nature, Cell and the New England Journal
of Medicine. His lab focuses on understanding mechanisms of melanoma
initiation and propagation.

A winner of the 2006 Victorian Premier’s Award for Medical Research, an
NHMRC Achievement Award in 2010 and more recently the 2012 Science
Minister’s Prize for Life Scientist of the Year – Mark has had a
remarkable decade of achievement.  Dr Shackleton is a current Pfizer
Australia Senior Research Fellow and a Fellow of the Victorian Endowment
for Science, Knowledge and Innovation.
		
URL: https://www.waimr.uwa.edu.au
		
For more information:
  Fiona Mackenzie
  fmackenzie@waimr.uwa.edu.au
  61510700

Starts       : Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:00
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Last Updated : Tue, 10 Feb 2015 15:24