Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Free Public Seminar - Giving cancer no place to hide
SPEAKER/S
Professor Peter Croucher and Associate Professor Christine Chaffer
DATE
10:30am 21 Jun 2024— 11:30am 21 Jun 2024
(AEST)
Join us for an interactive seminar on Garvan’s work to improve the treatment of advanced-stage cancers, including myeloma, breast and prostate cancer.
The majority of cancer deaths arise from advanced-stage disease that has spread around the body and become resistant to treatment. Garvan researchers are tackling these challenges head-on and working towards a future where all cancers can be effectively treated, controlled and prevented.
At this seminar, Professor Peter Croucher will outline Garvan’s world-leading discoveries in cancer dormancy – where cancer cells spread to organs such as bone, resist treatment and hide from the immune system – and how this research will lead to new treatments for advanced breast cancer, advanced prostate cancer and multiple myeloma.
Associate Professor Christine Chaffer will present how patient tissue models and the latest sequencing technologies can be used to study cancer cell plasticity, the ability of cancer cells to switch between different states that help them better spread around the body, to resist therapies and to recur following treatment. She will provide an update on a current clinical trial testing a potential new therapy for triple-negative breast cancer, one of the most aggressive forms of the disease.
Panel
Professor Peter Croucher
Professor Peter Croucher heads Garvan’s Bone Biology Lab, with a longstanding fascination for cancer-associated bone disease. He has a particular interest in the molecular mechanisms of bone disease, how cancer spreads to bone, and what controls dormancy and reactivation of cancer cells within bone. He is motivated by the clinical impacts that his research has already had, and by the potential for widespread future impacts on bone disease, cancer relapse and metastasis.
Associate Professor Christine Chaffer
Associate Professor Christine Chaffer’s passion and career focus is understanding the mechanisms driving cancer development and metastasis, that can lead to translational benefits for patient outcomes. Her team focuses on breast cancer biology, tumour-initiating cells, and mammary gland biology.
By understanding the genetic keys that keep cancer cells dormant, we can not only prevent their awakening but eradicate them entirely. This is the Holy Grail of cancer research.
PROFESSOR PETER CROUCHER
All seminars take place in the auditorium at Garvan Institute of Medical Research
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