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PA Giving Day PA Prostate Team Fundraising a Great Success
The APCRC-Q PA Prostate Cancer team had a engaging 2nd Sept 2021, raising funds for the PA Giving Day We’re all 4 the Heroes campaign.
APCRC-Q Founder and Executive Director Professor Colleen Nelson Celebrated in Australia Day 2021 Honours
Professor Colleen Nelson has been appointed a Member of the Order of Australia, for significant service to medical research, particularly prostate cancer, and to health organisations, in the 2021 Australia Day Honours.
New prostate cancer therapeutics being developed by APCRC-Q researchers could also fight COVID-19
Therapies being developed by the Centre's Dr Lisa Philp and Professor Colleen Nelson for prostate cancer, could also be used to fight the worst symptoms of COVID-19.
APCRC-Q researchers provide commentary on recent cancer publications
A suite of 23 articles recently published in Nature and its affiliated journals detailed the results of research conducted by the Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes Consortium.
2019 Carla Patterson Award Winners
Congratulations to Dr Sri Srinivasan and Ms Farhana Martin on their recent success winning 2019 Carla Patterson Awards.
Movember Fundraising a Great Success
The month of Movember is a busy one for APCRC-Q as we go into overdrive raising funds for a cause that is close to all our hearts – men’s health.
APCRC-Q researchers receive a Metro South Health Research Support Scheme Grant
Congratulations to Dr Ian Vela, A/Prof Elizabeth Williams, Dr Patrick Thomas, and Dr Ben Shepherd who were awarded an Innovation (Seed) Grant of $25,000
APCRC-Q Research featured in Top Story of Prostate Cell News
Congratulations to Nathalie Bock, Ali Shokoohmand, Thomas Kryza, Joan Röhl, Jonelle Meijer, Phong A. Tran, Colleen C. Nelson, Judith A. Clements and Dietmar W. Hutmacher. Their article entitled: “Engineering osteoblastic metastases to delineate the adaptive response of androgen-deprived prostate cancer in the bone metastatic microenvironment” was featured as Top Story in the 26 April 2019 issue of Prostate Cancer Cell News.
MicroRNA Profiling Reveals Prostate Cancer Diagnostic Biomarker Panel
APCRC-Q PhD candidate, Farhana Martin, and A/Prof Jyotsna Batra have identified a four microRNA signature with the potential to improve early prostate cancer diagnosis.
United States Department of Defence Funding Award for APCRC-Q Research team
APCRC-Q researchers awarded a US Department of Defense Idea Development Award.
A/Prof Jyotsna Batra featured in Newspaper in India
A/Prof Jyostna Batra received media coverage while in India last month for the International Conference on Translational Research.
Movember Fundraising Success
Congratulations to the APCRC-Q team who raised a total of $3497 dollars during Movember this year.
QUT APR Intern Program
Ms Farhana Matin secured a place on the Australian Postgraduate Research Internship Program (APRIntern) at the Office of the Queensland Chief Scientist.
Publication Success for Drs Nataly Stylianou and Brett Hollier
Dr Nataly Stylianou and Dr Brett Hollier from the Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre- Queensland (APCRC-Q), recently published a research article in Oncogene (September 7th 2018).
Prostate Cancer Researchers receive School of Biomedical Sciences Support
APCRC-Q researchers were awarded funding from the 2018 School of Biomedical Sciences Support Schemes
Prizes for three APCRC-Q Researchers
Congratulations to three award winners at the Princess Alexandra Research Symposium Research Excellence Awards
Winners of the 2018 Carla Patterson Award
Dr Claire Levrier and co-authors won the 2018 Carla Patterson Award for their publication in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics
A/Prof Jyotsna Batra named Cure Cancer Australia's Researcher of the Year 2018
A/Prof Jyotsna Batra received the 2018 Cure Cancer Australia Researcher of the Year Award at a ceremony in Sydney in late May, in recognition of her work in identifying genetic variations that predispose men to prostate cancer.
Princess Alexandra Research Foundation awards for APCRC-Q Researchers
Dr Brett Hollier and A/Prof Elizabeth Williams are lead investigators on two successful research grants from the Princess Alexandra Research Foundation.