Kathryn Jenkins, Sally McCowatt and Sue Kirby Lewis
NSLHD cancer researchers honoured in Premier’s Awards Northern Sydney Cancer
Cancer clinical trials unit conducts a balance of commercial and investigator initiated studies. In 2019, more than 60 per cent of the trials recruited the amount of patients it set as its target – a remarkable achievement which demonstrates strategic trial selection. In addition, the trials unit has doubled the number of enrolments in investigator- initiated treatment trials. Investigator initiated trials are non-sponsored, in-house NSLHD Chief Executive Deb Willcox said: “I would like to congratulate Professor Alexander Engel, Clinical Director of Cancer and Palliative Care, and his remarkable team on this wonderful achievement.” Professor Gill is part of the Australian Pancreatic Genome trials run by doctors or collaborative groups.
Initiative which took out the Highly Cited Publication Award. The initiative is a global research enterprise of more than 100 scientists, clinicians and allied health professionals – includes many NSW-based researchers. With over 500 citations, their recognised paper is ‘Genomic analyses identify molecular subtypes of pancreatic cancer’.
Centre and Professor Anthony Gill were honoured at the 2019 NSW Premier’s Awards for Outstanding Cancer Research.
These awards, which are hosted by the Cancer
Institute NSW, honour the achievements of individuals and teams working across the cancer research sector and are the leading NSW awards in celebrating excellence and innovation in cancer research. Royal North Shore Hospital’s Clinical Trials Unit Manager Sally McCowatt and her talented team won the Outstanding Cancer Clinical Trials Unit award against strong competition from across the state. The Australian Pancreatic Genome Initiative, which Professor Gill has been heavily involved in, took out the Wildfire Highly Cited Publication award.
Published in 2016, it is a foundation for the next generation of pancreatic cancer research.
Professor Anthony Gill
Royal North Shore Hospital’
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