Cancer eNews - 14 Aug 2020

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The Cancer Clinical Academic Group is now proudly working with Translational Cancer Research Centre partners to bring you the latest news, grant opportunities, and events from our combined network

Uniting cancer research into a globally-leading partnership to deliver continuing evidence-based practice in diagnosis, intervention, and support

Hypertension drug linked to increased skin cancer risk in older Australians

Hydrochlorothiazide – one of the most prescribed high blood pressure drugs in Australia – has shown links to increased risk of developing skin cancer among older Australians, in a new study led by UNSW Sydney researchers based in the Centre for Big Data Research in Health.

CONCERT member of the month: Prof Shalini Vinod

CONCERT member, Professor Shalini Vinod and her team at Liverpool Hospital’s Cancer Therapy Centre, are working hard to conduct research with the aim of improving outcomes in lung cancer patients in South West Sydney.

GRANTS

NIH - Secondary Analysis & Integration Of Existing Data To Elucidate The Genetic Architecture Of Cancer Risk & Related Outcomes

The goal of this initiative is to address key scientific questions relevant to cancer genomic and epidemiology by supporting the analysis of existing genetic or genomic datasets, in combination with other omics and environmental, clinical, behavioural, lifestyle, and molecular profiles data.

Deadline: 16 October 2020

MRFF Australian Brain Cancer Mission – 2020 Brain Cancer Survivorship Grant

The objective of this grant opportunity is to:

support the development of new approaches and the use of technologies to improve communications between brain cancer survivors, their families, carers and health care professionals; and
understand how information technologies and platforms can be used to support people with brain cancer, their families and carers, and their impact on the physical, psychosocial and economic sequelae of a brain cancer diagnosis.

Deadline: 20 October 2020

AWARDS, TRAINING AND RESOURCES

HSRAANZ 2020 Awards – Call for nominations extended to 31 August

The Health Services Research Association of Australia and New Zealand's awards and prizes program recognises individuals who have made significant contributions to the fields of health services and policy research.

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TCRN PhD Scholarship Top-Up Awards for UNSW and UTS students

These awards are designed to enhance the translational cancer research capabilities of PhD students who possess research interests aligned to the core strengths of the TCRN.

Application deadline: 20 October 2020

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PhD opportunity: Single cell biology

A PhD position in single cell biology is available with Dr Fabio Zanini, Adult Cancer Program UNSW Medicine, commencing in 2021. Applicants should send a half-page statement of research interests and CV to Fabio Zanini. Applications considered as received.

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Job opportunity: Research Officer (Targeted Therapies)

The Children's Cancer Institute has an opportunity for an immunologist to work on a 3 year project. The successful candidate will undertake a variety of cellular, molecular biology and in vivo experiments to study tumour microenvironment and develop novel immunotherapy strategy for Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas (DIPG).

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What do you want from a consumer and community involvement knowledge hub?

The Australian Health Research Alliance is seeking healthcare professionals, researchers, managers and consumers to tell them about information, resource and support needs for consumer and community involvement. Responses will help AHRA to develop an online knowledge hub.

Survey

Culturally safe and responsive cancer care

Cancer Australia had released the Guide to implementing the Optimal Care Pathway for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with cancer. The guide aims to assist health professionals in the delivery of culturally safe and responsive cancer care.

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SEMINARS AND EVENTS

UNSW NHMRC Development Grant seminar and support

This seminar will provide tips and things to consider when preparing for your NHMRC Development application, with advice from the UNSW Research Strategy Office and Knowledge Exchange.

When: 19 August 2020

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Medical Technology workshop - last chance to register

This free virtual workshop will give you information and advice to bring your ideas to commercial and clinical fruition, through talks, case studies and panel discussion. It is sponsored by UNSW Medicine and two clinical academic groups (CAGs) from the Maridulu Budyari Gumal (SPHERE) network in Sydney, the Triple I CAG and Cancer CAG.

When: 25 August 2020

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ABOUT US

TCRN

The Translational Cancer Research Network (TCRN) is a translational cancer research centre program funded by the Cancer Institute NSW and is a collaborative and interactive cancer research community based in the South East of Sydney, with links to cancer services and researchers in inner and southern Sydney, and Albury. It was formed to create an innovative and supportive environment for the translation of cancer research into improvements in patient care.

CONCERT

The Centre for Oncology Education, Research and Training (CONCERT) is a translational research centre program funded by the Cancer Insitute NSW. CONCERT exists to bring together the knowledge and expertise of cancer health professionals and researchers to facilitate translation of research generated evidence into practice to achieve better outcomes for those affected by cancer.

Cancer CAG

The Cancer Clinical Academic Group (Cancer CAG) brings together clinicians and researchers from three universities, four cancer services (with six major treatment facilities) and three Medical Research Institutes. Our combined research strength spans the translational medicine spectrum of bench to bedside and health service delivery.

Working with TCRC partners, our network extends to all of the organisations below.

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Cancer CAG

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