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2017 Annual Address will be delivered by The Hon Roger Cook MLA followed by an informal discussion led by the Chief Scientist of WA, Peter Klinken AC.

For more information and online bookings please go to http://www.wahtn.org/events/30-08-2017/

L-R, Professor Alistair Forrest, Health Minister Roger Cook, Professor Christobel Saunders and Mr Peter Mansell

Generous funding from the Cancer Research Trust’s (CRT) Collaborative Cancer Research Grants will have a profound impact on early diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

Health Minister Roger Cook presented the CRC Collaborative Cancer Research Grants on Monday 3 July, 2017 to support and raise the international profile of cancer research in Western Australia. The celebrated research projects, led by Professor Alistair Forrest and Professor Christobel Saunders aim to provide insights into how cancer develops at the most microscopic level, and ensuring cancer treatment regimes meet patients’ needs first.

The success of cancer research within Western Australia is testament to collaboration within the state, across WAHTN partner institutions.

The $18 million grant was funded collaboratively – by the Cancer Research Trust’s (CRT) ($13.5 million), the Cancer Council of WA, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, Telethon Kids Institute, Edith Cowan University, The University of Western Australia, Murdoch, Curtin University, the University of Notre Dame Australia and St John of God Health Care.

It is expected that this boost for medical research will support and raise the international profile of cancer research in WA and notably translate into better outcomes, diagnosis and treatments for all cancer patients.

The WAHTN is establishing a listing of Western Australian cohorts and registries for the purpose of encouraging collaboration and sharing of know-how and resources.

These can be general community cohorts, clinical registries, or special population cohorts.

If you are in charge of a cohort/registry could you please provide a brief summary of the cohort using the following template.

This summary will be made public on the WAHTN website unless you specify otherwise.

We plan to run a symposium in 2017 to bring WA cohorts together for the first time.

Please pass this notice on to anyone you know who may be in charge of a cohort/registry.

The 2017 round of the Premier’s Science Fellowship Program will be in the medicine and health priority area related to human phenomics research.

The Premier’s Science Fellowship Program was launched this May, at the annual Science on the Swan Conference.

The fellowship will provide $1.5 million over four years to attract a leading researcher and a supporting early to mid-career researcher to Western Australia, to work in the area of human phenomics research and data analysis.

Human phenomics relates to the interactions between the genotype, environment and lifestyle at a molecular level, and metabolic phenotyping of the human population. Together with correlation of clinical data, human phenomics research will lead to improved health care outcomes.

Applications must be received by the Department at the Office of Science by 3.00 pm (AWST) on Tuesday 12 September 2017.

Applications must be submitted by the WAHTN as the Lead Applicant, in conjunction with one or more eligible host organisations based in WA.

Please contact Professor John Challis regarding any project ideas.

For more information visit the Premier’s Science Fellowship Program page here and/or read the media release here.