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Professor Yong Li

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Cancer Cell Biology, Cancer Diagnosis, Chemotherapy, Radiation Therapy, Medical Biochemistry: Proteins and Peptides (incl. Medical Proteomics), Protein Targeting and Signal Transduction, Molecular Targets, Oncology and Carcinogenesis

Dr Li is the Professor (Conjoint) in the Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney; a Principal Scientific Officer at St George Hospital, the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD);

Dr Kevin Ni

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Cancer Cell Biology, Chemotherapy, Radiation Therapy, Cancer Diagnosis, Biological and Medical Chemistry, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Protein Targeting and Signal Transduction, Medical and Health Sciences, Cancer Diagnosis
Keywords:

translational medical research

I am a cancer research scientist specialising in molecular biomarker discovery, liquid biopsy and extracellular vesicles, transcriptomics, chemo-/radio-resistance, radiation biology, cancer stem ce

Professor Afaf Girgis

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Public Health and Health Services, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology
SEO tags:

Behaviour and Health

Health Status (e.g. Indicators of Well-Being)

Carer Health

Cancer and Related Disorders

Keywords:

culturallly and linguistically diverse populations

behavioural medicine

psycho-oncology

patient-reported outcome measures

Emeritus Professor Afaf Girgis AM, is with the South Western Sydney Clinical Campuses, UNSW Sydney.

Dr Ashwin Unnikrishnan

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Genomics and transcriptomics, Haematological tumours, Epigenetics (incl. genome methylation and epigenomics), Cancer cell biology, Cancer genetics, Cancer therapy (excl. chemotherapy and radiation therapy), Chemotherapy, Gene expression (incl. microarray and other genome-wide approaches), Pharmacogenomics, Haematological Tumours, Epigenetics (incl. Genome Methylation and Epigenomics), Cancer Cell Biology, Genomics, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Regenerative Medicine (incl. Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering), Cancer Genetics
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Cancer and Related Disorders

Expanding Knowledge in the Medical and Health Sciences

Keywords:

hematologic neoplasms

acute myeloid leukemia

myelodysplastic syndromes

rna splicing

myelodysplastic and myeloproliferative disorders

hematopoietic stem cells

translational medical research

adult stem cells

I am a biomedical research scientist and Head of the Molecular Mechanisms in Leukaemia laboratory (https://www.unsw.edu.au/medicine-health/our-schools/clinical-medicine/research-impact/research-gro

Associate Professor Jia Lin Yang

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Gene and Molecular Therapy
SEO tags:

Cancer and Related Disorders

Clinical Health (Organs, Diseases and Abnormal Conditions)

Research Interests:

Professor Claire Vajdic

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Epidemiology, Oncology and carcinogenesis, Public health, Data management and data science, Health services and systems, Infectious diseases, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
SEO tags:

Cancer and Related Disorders

Keywords:

My research program uses large-scale linked health data to drive best practice health care and reduce the burden of cancer.

Professor David Simon Ziegler

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Haematological Tumours, Haematology, Paediatrics, Oncology and Carcinogenesis
SEO tags:

Cancer and Related Disorders

Prof David Ziegler is a Senior Staff Specialist in the Kids Cancer Centre at Sydney Children’s Hospital and has expertise in neuro-oncology and early phase clinical trials. Prof Ziegler compl

Professor Alexander Swarbrick

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Cancer Cell Biology, Cancer Therapy (excl. Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy), Tumour Immunology, Genomics, Pathology, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Bioinformatics
SEO tags:

Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences

Cancer and Related Disorders

Expanding Knowledge in the Medical and Health Sciences

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Emeritus Professor Michael Barton

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Radiation Therapy

Michael Barton OAM is Scientia Professor of Radiation Oncology at UNSW, and Research Director of the Collaboration for Cancer Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CCORE).

Dr Tzong Tyng Hung

Faculty: Research & Enterprise
Fields of Research (FoR): Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Radiology and Imaging

Research Interests: Applications of high frequency ultrasound PET-CT imaging for prostate cancer detection

Emeritus Professor Allan David Spigelman

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Cancer Genetics, Education
Keywords:

Broad Research Areas: Surgery, Cancer, Clinical Governance, Clinical Research, Gastrointestinal Diseases,

Dr Charlotte Rose Lemech

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Oncology and Carcinogenesis

Scientia Clinical Research (SCR) is the first publicly funded purpose built early phase clinical trials centre in UNSW.

Dr Anthony James Chambers

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Surgery, Oncology and Carcinogenesis
Keywords:

breast cancer

Dr Anthony Chambers is a Senior Lecturer in Surgery at the St Vincent's Clinical School and a consultant general surgeon at St Vincent's Hospital specialising in surgical oncology, breast surgery a

Population-based family study of follicular lymphoma

Field of Research (FoR):

Public Health and Health Services

Oncology and Carcinogenesis

SEO tags:

Cancer and Related Disorders

Public health not elsewhere classified

Follicular lymphoma is the second most common type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in adults. The environmental and genetic factors that influence the susceptibility of this cancer are not completely understood.

The epidemiology of multiple myeloma in Australia

Field of Research (FoR):

Public Health and Health Services

Oncology and Carcinogenesis

SEO tags:

Cancer and Related Disorders

Public health not elsewhere classified

Multiple Myeloma (MM) is a B-cell malignancy morphologically characterized by a monoclonal proliferation of plasma cells in the bone marrow. The causes of MM are poorly understood and its prognosis is poor.

International lymphoma pooled analyses

Field of Research (FoR):

Public Health and Health Services

Oncology and Carcinogenesis

SEO tags:

Cancer and Related Disorders

Public health not elsewhere classified

We are collaborating on a number of international pooled analyses being conducted under the auspices of the International Lymphoma Epidemiology Consortium (InterLymph).

Population-level relevance of risk factors for cancer

Field of Research (FoR):

Public Health and Health Services

Oncology and Carcinogenesis

SEO tags:

Cancer and Related Disorders

Public health not elsewhere classified

We are estimating and comparing the population-level relevance of risk factors for cancer in Australia by applying our recently published PAF measure and program to data from established large-scale Australian cohort studies linked to national cancer and death registries (relative risk estimates)

Burden of cancer – prevention, treatment, costs and related diseases

Field of Research (FoR):

Public Health and Health Services

Oncology and Carcinogenesis

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Cancer and Related Disorders

Public health not elsewhere classified

The aims of this Fellowship are to utilise and further extend recently developed methods for estimating different aspects of disease burden in order to: