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CHIRI Cancer Workshop

By Kerrie Collier 23 May 2017 Events News Comments Off on CHIRI Cancer Workshop

Post Science on Swan, CHIRI hosted a Cancer Workshop which was kindly organised by Delia Nelson, Pritinder Kaur, Nina Tirnitz-Parker, Connie Jackaman, Carl Mousley, Pat Metharom, Deirdre Coombe and Yu Yu.  The meeting had the opportunity to host 5 International/national speakers, as well as featuring CHIRI researchers and PhD students.  Attendance was once again strong, with 65 registrants and substantial interactive discussions took place.  A small number of outstanding student oral presentations were given.  Best student presentation award was to Abhijeet Deshmukh for his talk titled “Epigenetic silencing of secreted frizzled-related protein genes in cancer stem cells from hormone related tumour cells.”

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Prof John Mamo and Abhijeet Deshmukh

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