An incredibly exciting day full of insightful and inspiring conversation from our research partners, collaborators and brain cancer experts.
National Conference
We recently held The Brain Cancer Centre’s inaugural National Conference. We’re so excited to have been able to bring our brain cancer community together to share our strategy and showcase our people.
Many Minds. One Focus:
Helping end brain cancer as a terminal illness
Our guest speakers included:
Carrie Bickmore OAM
Founder and Chair, Carrie’s Beanies 4 Brain Cancer
Professor Doug Hilton AO
Director, WEHI and Head, The Brain Cancer Centre
Sam McGuane
General Manager, The Brain Cancer Centre
The Hon. Jaala Pulford MP
Minister for Innovation, Medical Research & the Digital Economy
Dr Jim Whittle
Laboratory Head, The Brain Cancer Centre, Medical Oncologist Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Dr Sarah Best
Laboratory Head, The Brain Cancer Centre
Dr Saskia Freytag
Laboratory Head, The Brain Cancer Centre
Associate Professor Misty Jenkins
Laboratory Head WEHI
Professor Mark Rosenthal
Director of Parkville Cancer Clinical Trials, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Professor Kate Drummond
Director of Neurosurgery, The Royal Melbourne Hospital
Associate Professor Joseph Nicolazzo
Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Graduate Research, Monash University
Professor Peter Gibbs
Joint Division Head, WEHI
Dr Diane Moujalled
Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr Heidi McAlpine
Neurosurgery Registrar, The Royal Melbourne Hospital and PhD student, University of Melbourne
Lachie Stephenson
His family share his brain cancer journey
If you missed the conference, you can catch up on the presentation videos here:
Welcome with Sam McGuane
Welcome message from Carrie Bickmore
Welcome message from Professor Doug Hilton
Welcome message from The Hon Jaala Pulford, MP
The Brain Cancer Centre Research Laboratory, a new model of team science with Dr Jim Whittle, Dr Saskia Freytag & Dr Sarah Best
PhD Presentation Dr Diane Moujalled, A new approach to glioblastoma multiforme therapy: activating multiple programmed cell death pathways
PhD presentation – Dr Heidi McApline – Dangerous networking: brain cancer and the brain
Panel Discussion: Our Research Strategy. Professor Kate Drummond, Professor Mark Rosenthal, Associate Professor Misty Jenkins, Dr Jim Whittle, Associate Professor Joseph Nicolazzo & Professor Peter Gibbs
Patient Story: Amy & Jason Stephenson share Lachie’s story
If you’d like further information, or have any questions about any of the content, please email info@thebraincancercentre.org.au
