News and Events
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Seminars
2009
The PAH Cancer Collaborative would like to extend an invitation to you and your staff to attend the following seminar:
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Date: Friday, 13 March 2009
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Venue: Princess Alexandra Hospital, Room 1.2L.5 (Building 1, Level 2, Blue lifts, left down corridor, past 2L Outpatients, turn left again)
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Time: 12:30pm for 1.00pm start
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Presentation title: Tissue Banking - Facilitating Translational Research
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Guest Speakers: Ms Megan Ellis (Manager, ALLG Tissue Bank), and Dr Jennifer Fleming (Chair, HREC).
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Seminar dates for 2007
Monday 5th November 2007
Wednesday 24th October 2007
Wednesday 8th August 2007
Monday 30th July 2007
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Professor Brian O'Sullivan, Bartley-Smith/Wharton, Chair and ProfessorDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Canada
“Evolving Knowledge About The Biology And Management Of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma"
Wednesday 20th June 2007
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Tissue Banking
Jennifer Fleming , PAH PhD QCF /Research Scholar, UQ
“Issues with Tissues: Donor and Public Perspectives”
Chris Schmidt, PhD, Head, Cancer Immunotherapy Laboratory, Chair, Queensland Institute of Medical Research
“Australasian Bio-Specimen Network”
Ms Megan Ellis – ALLG Tissue Bank Manager
“The PwC ALLG Leukaemia and Lymphoma Tissue Bank”
Seminar dates for 2006
Wednesday 21st June 2006
- Ms Amanda Purcell, Radiation Oncology Unit, PAH,“ Cancer-related Fatigue: Contributing Factors and Effects in Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy” (presentation)
- Dr Steven Lane, Haematology Department, PAH,“ Valproic Acid Combination Therapy for Acute Myeloid Leukaemia”, (presentation)
- Dr Nigel McMillan, Centre for Immunology and Cancer Research, UQ “ DNA Microarrays to Predict Cancer Outcomes” (presentation)
- Seminar Flyer
Wednesday 19th April 2006
- Ms Patricia Sinnamon and Dr Terry Haines, Physiotherapy Department, PAH “Early Lymphodema Management among women with breast cancer” (presentation)
- Professor Tom Gonda, Centre for Immunology and Cancer Research, UQ/PAH “Regulation and the role of the MYB oncogene in breast cancer” (presentation)
- Ms Erika Fiorenza, Mental Health Department, PAH “Consultation Liaison Psychiatry - Depression Screening Project” (presentation)
- Seminar Flyer
Wednesday 15th February 2006
- Dr David Brown-Rothwell, Audiology Department "Acoustic Neuroma: More Questions than Answers (presentation)
- Ms Letitia Burridge, School of Population Health, UQ. "Dimensions of Care Giving and Reluctance to Care." (presentation)
- Dr. Alex Guminski, Oncology Department, "Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor Therapy for Head and Neck Cancer." (presentation)
- Seminar Flyer
Symposia
PAH Week 2007
Translational Research Symposium
- 2005 Tranlational Research Symposium flyer (685 kB PDF)
- Dr Devinder Gill - Advances in Leukaemia treatments (presentation)
- Professor Michael Roberts - Therapeutics: Making a difference. (presentation)
- Dr. Petrea Cornwell - The ICF as a tool for the exploration of therapy goals in the rehabilitation setting: Applied to neurological populations. (presentation)
- Professor David Gotley - Insights into tumour metastasis (presentation)
- Dr. Nigel McMillian - Advances in molecular diagnosis and treatments of cancer (presentation)
- Professor Anthony Burgess - The development of cancer therapeutics that target the EGF receptor family (presentation)
- Professor Tom Gonda - Discovery and molecular targeting of oncogenes involved in myeloid leukaemia. (presentation)
- Dr. Brian Gabrielli - Histone Decacelylase inhibitors as a new class of anticancer agents. (presentation)
- Associate Professor Nick Saunders - Emerging therapies and the trial of novel agents for the treatment of squamous cell carcinoma (presentation)
- Professor Ian Frazer - Global prevention of cervical cancer through immunisation. (presentation)
- Associate Professor Graeme MacDonald - Adiponectin: A ley adipokine in the metabolic syndrome (presentation)
PAH Week 2005
- Associate Professor Darrell Crawford - Recent Advances in Hereditary Haemochromatosis. (presentation)
- Dr. Michele Foster - The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) Classification system and its Application to Rehabilitation settings. (presentation)
- Dr Jenny Flemming - The ICF environment framework and ABI rehabilitation in day hospital. (presentation)
- Dr. Terrence Haines - Limitations of an ICF injection in rehabilitation. (presentation)
- Professor Ian Frazer - Modelling Cancer Immunotherapy - Lessions for clinical Practice. (presentation)
- Dr Alex Guminski - Novel Approaches to Recurrent Head and Neck Cancer. (presentation)
- Associate Professor Nick Saunders - Molcular Events involved in Squamous Cell Carcinoma Development. (presentation)
- David Crompton - Mental Health Problems of Diasters.(presentation)
- Melissa Kendall - Using the ICF in community rehabilitation (presentation)
- Dr. Sandro Porceddu - Conformal RT and Novel chemo-radiotherapeutic approaches to head and neck cancer. (presentation)
Media Releases
- Bright Future for Health Research in Queensland (15th July 2002) Media Release
- $2 million Grant to Fund Queensland Cancer Research (10th October 2003) Media Release
- Give Our Team $2 million and Expect Exciting Results for Queenslanders (3rd November 2003) Media Release
- Scholarships Boost Cancer Research (August 2005) Media Release
- Three Win Researchers Scholarships (August 2005) Media Release
- Seeking New Directions (October 2005) Media Release
- $3.4m Grant for Research (November 2005) Media Release
Conferences
- The Centre for Immunology and Cancer Research and Cancer Collaborative Group Symposium 'New Directions in Leukaemia Research' 2-5th April 2006. Brochure and Poster.
Community Lectures
February 2006
May 2005
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