COLORECTAL CANCER - INAUGURAL LAWRENCE PENN CHAIR OF BOWEL CANCER RESEARCH
In April 2018 , Sydney Vital ’ s colorectal cancer research capacity was enhanced with the appointment of Prof Mark Molloy as the inaugural Lawrence Penn Chair of bowel cancer research at The University of Sydney , with a research laboratory established in the Kolling . The Lawrence Penn Chair has been established in perpetuity through a gift from Bowel Cancer Australia to build a dedicated scientific research focus for bowel cancer on the Royal North Shore Hospital campus . Professor Molloy is a biochemist and expert in the application of proteomics and analytical technologies and will use patient specimens and clinicopathology data already establish by clinical researchers at Sydney Vital . His research is focused on understanding why some bowel polyps develop into cancers , integrative molecular subtyping of colorectal cancers to develop new prognostic biomarkers and developing predictive biomarkers for response to therapy . He has appointed two post - doctoral fellows to expand bowel cancer research capacity at the Kolling .
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