SYDNEY VITAL AT THE NSW PREMIER ' S AWARDS
FOR OUTSTANDING CANCER RESEARCH
A/PROF ANGELA CHOU (2015 & 2020) A / Prof Angela Chou , Sydney Vital seed funding recipient , has received two NSW Premier ' s Awards . In 2015 , A / Prof Chou was recognised with a Rising Star award for her pioneering research in the field of gastrointestinal and pancreatic cancers , which was part of her PhD project at the Garvan Institute . In 2020 , she won the NSW Premier ' s Awards for Outstanding Cancer Research Fellow - Early Career Fellow for her work in translational pancreatic cancer research . A / Prof Chou is now a cancer researcher in the Kolling at the Royal North Shore Hospital ( RNSH ) as well as a practicing diagnostic pathologist at RNSH and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Sydney .
PROF ANTHONY GILL AM (2013, 2015, 2018 & 2019)
Prof Pathologist , Executive and Thyroid Cancer TCE leader , received the NSW Premier ’ s award for Excellence in Translational Cancer Research prior to his work with Sydney Vital in 2013 . In 2015 , 2018 and 2019 , he received the Wildfire Highly Cited Publication award as the Chairman of the Australian Anthony Gill , Sydney Vital Academic Pancreatic Genome Initiative ( APGI ) in recognition of the most highly cited original research papers over the preceding three years ( for : Nature 2012 ; 491 : 399 - 405 ; Nature 2015 ; 518 , 495 – 501 ; and Nature 2016 ; 532 , 47 - 52 ). The APGI focusses on improving treatment and diagnosis of people with pancreatic cancer by facilitating research projects which systematically catalogue the genomic and epigenomic abnormalities in pancreatic cancer and translating their discoveries into routine clinical care .
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