Announcing the Lowy Symposium: Discovering Cancer Therapeutics

Promoting the link between research and achieving better health outcomes for people with cancer and exploring new therapeutics and therapies for cancer.

Themes

• Discovery research
• Pre-clinical research
• Clinical / translational research

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Early Bird Registration and Oral Abstract submission is open until Monday15th March
Due to pressures of grant submissions the committee has decided to extend the Early Bird Registration deadline.

Plenary Speakers

• Dr Vishva Dixit, Genentech, California, USA
• Dr Nicholas Dracopoli, Johnson & Johnson, Pennsylvania, USA
• Dr Barry Sharpless, The Scripps Research Institute, California, USA

• Dr Gerard Evan, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
• Dr Andrei Gudkov, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, New York, USA
  
• Prof Susan Horwitz, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA
• Dr Peter Houghton, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Ohio, USA
• Dr John Maris, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
• Dr Lyubomir Vassilev, Roche, New Jersey, USA 

National Speakers

• A/Prof Ricky Johnstone, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, VIC
• A/Prof Martin Lackmann, Monash University, VIC
• Prof Angel Lopez, Centre for Cancer Biology, SA Pathology, SA
• A/Prof Grant McArthur, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, VIC
• Prof Michael Parker, St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, VIC
  
• Prof Roger Reddel, Children's Medical Research Institute, NSW
• Prof Andrew Roberts, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, VIC
• Prof Andrew Scott, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, VIC
• Dr Clare Scott, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, VIC
• Prof Andrew Wilks, SYN|thesis med chem, VIC