next ANZAAS Science Talk, Melbourne
Wednesday 18th June 2025, 6:30 pm
At Bio21 Institute, 30 Flemington Rd, near corner with Park Drive, Parkville
Professor Ricky Johnstone
Executive Director Cancer Research, Peter Mac
“Are we really ready for research-driven personalised cancer care in Australia?”
The future of precision cancer care is multi-modal, real-time, data driven, and individualised. While we’re making strong strides, especially in genomics and targeted therapies, we’re not yet at a point where every patient benefits from fully personalised care. The field is moving rapidlyand over the next 5-10 years, we may see many of today’s emerging technologies become standard practice.
Professor Johnstone received his PhD from the University of Melbourne in 1993, and after a postdoc at Harvard Medical School returned to Melbourne to establish the Gene Regulation Laboratory at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in 2000. He is an internationally renowned cancer researcher who has utilized genetic mouse models of haemopoietic malignancies and solid tumours to understand the epigenetic and transcriptional changes that underpin tumour onset and progression and to develop new therapies that target epigenetic and transcriptional regulatory proteins, and showed how epigenetic based-agents can engage the host immune system to drive prolonged therapeutic responses.
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Forthcoming talks:
Wednesday 23rd July Professor Anette ‘Peko’ Hosoi Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Fluid dynamics, biomechanics, and bio-inspired design”
Wednesday 20th August Professor Kit Fairley AO Director, Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
Wednesday 17th Sept Dr David Mitchell Mount Burnett Observatory “Cosmic Rays – Celestial Messengers”
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We are pleased to acknowledge the support by CSL and Bio21 for the ANZAAS Melbourne science talks series
Further Info: David Vaux davidlaurencevaux@gmail.com
http://www.anzaas.org.au/victoria/
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Click HERE to see past ANZAAS Science Talks
John Long May 2025
Disability, Innovation and Spin-offs
Peter van Wijngaarden March 2025
Imaging the eye to see the brain
Tony Heyes November 2024
Disability, Innovation and Spin-offs
David Vaux August 2024
Cell death: Bench to Bedside
Peter Cowan July 2024
Xenotransplantation: Custom-Designing Pig Parts for People
Richard Olive May 2024
The West Gate Bridge Disaster – A Failure at the Engineering, Organisational and Personal Levels
Greg Moore November April 2024
Urban trees are vital for sustainable, liveable cities
Rachelle Buchbinder March 2024
Hippocrasy, how doctors are betraying their oath
Daniel Mathews November 2023
Topology and the shape of space
Beth Ebert October 2023
Improving early warnings of epidemic thunderstorm asthma
David Komander September 2023
Playing Tag with Ubiquitin
David Vaux August 2023
A short history of cancer genes
Chris Greening May 2023
The atmosphere as a hidden energy source for life
Jim Goding March 2023
Transistors, the Microchip & the Second Industrial Revolution
Paul Lasky November 2022
A new window on the Universe
Peter Currie October 2022
Regeneration: Myths and monsters and modern medicine
Heather Mack September 2022
Injecting eyes with antibodies to treat problems of the retina
Helen Green August 2022
Dating Australia’s rock art
Mahdi Jalali July 2022
Transport electrification and integration of EVs within the electricity grid
Grant McArthur June 2022
Science led inroads into melanoma – Australia and New Zealand’s disease
Alan Duffy May 2022
Darkness visible down-under
Timothy Clark April 2022
The importance of reproducibility and integrity in science: a fishy perspective
Tilman Ruff March 2022
Ending the nuclear weapons era evidence, challenges and pathways
Brian Abbey November 2021
The colour of cancer: could ‘smart’ microscope slides transform tissue diagnostics?
Cameron Simmons October 2021
Creating stop signs in mosquitoes; is this the end-game for Dengue?
Madhu Bhaskaran September 2021
Unbreakable sensors the future is here
Anne Marie Tosolini August 2021
Fossil Leaves from Cretaceous and Paleogene Polar Environments
Geoff Brooks July 2021
Green Steel: Can we decarburise steel production?
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