The Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation went to WEHI’s venetoclax team, an anti-cancer drug that was nearly three decades in the making and specifically impacts the BCL-2 protein. US researchers are trialing an immunotherapy that attacks two blood cancer cell targets, rather than the conventional one, the design aims to achieve a more robust defense. A UK researcher has discovered the mutant gene that is involved in driving the progression of a previously untreatable childhood brain cancer. What happens after the cancer treatment? Women experience several side-effects from cancer treatment, including early menopause. How do clinicians address these challenges? |
| | | Monday 14 October - Monday 21 October |  |  | The Guardian • Oct 20, 2019 19:10 |  | | Researchers say they are close to testing a drug that could tackle a previously untreatable childhood brain cancer. The condition is known... Six-year-old’s death leads to hope of new drug for childhood cancer |
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| | The Age (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Oct 20, 2019 17:38 | | | The doors to the Australian Synchrotron are usually bolted shut. But on Sunday, hundreds of budding researchers... in awe through the enormous facility – home to research in fields as diverse as cancer treatment and art history. The Synchrotron is an MCG- |
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| | The Medical News • Oct 18, 2019 10:19 | | | Yale Cancer Center scientists have built a powerful genomic research platform to study cervical cancer, a disease that often is untreatable... Yale Cancer Center scientists have built a powerful genomic research platform to study cervical cancer, a disease that often is untreatable |
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| | The Medical News • Oct 17, 2019 5:7 | | | The field of immunotherapy has revolutionized the way people with incurable cancers are treated, saving the lives of many people whose... Scientists harness the power of immune system to test novel cancer treatment |
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| | ABC News • Oct 17, 2019 0:8 | | | Supplied: Prime Minister's Prizes for Science A mathematician has won the 2019 Prime Minister's Prize for Science for her contributions to... Prime Minister's science prizes go to trailblazing mathematician and anti-cancer drug team |
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| | The Medical News • Oct 16, 2019 7:0 | | | Ludwig Cancer Research scientists have developed a new and more accurate method to identify the molecular signs of cancer likely to be... Ludwig Cancer Research scientists have developed a new and more accurate method to identify the molecular signs of cancer likely to be |
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| | The Department of Health • Oct 15, 2019 21:6 | | | Read Minister Hunt's address to Medicines Australia's PharmAus 2019. Minister Hunt talks about the Australian Government's medicines... under the Medical Research Future Fund. We announced in the 2019 Budget a 10-year investment plan for the Medical Research Future Fund – so |
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| | The Medical Republic • Oct 14, 2019 16:6 | | | Troublesome menopausal symptoms are common for women of all ages after cancer treatment, and the safe and effective management of these... Hickey, Head of the Gynaecology Research Centre at The University of Melbourne and The Royal Women’s Hospital, about current treatment |
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| | The Department of Health • Oct 14, 2019 12:23 | | | Cutting edge researchers and entrepreneurs can receive up to $1 million from the Morrison Government to develop their breakthrough medical... million BioMedTech (MBT) Horizons initiative, funded by our landmark Medical Research Future Fund, will open on 15 October. This round will |
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