Major grant funding to progress lipid-based therapies to treat prostate cancer

Congratulations to members of the Lipids and Prostate Cancer Laboratory (University of Adelaide) at SAHMRI on their major grant funding and appointments.

Dr Zeyad Nassar (pictured left), who was recently appointed as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the South Australian Immunogenomics Cancer Institute (SAIGENCI) has been awarded a prestigious and highly competitive grant from the US Department of Defense. The funding worth more than $1Mi over three years will be used to advance drug development and trialing of lipid-based therapies as a new strategy to treat prostate cancer.

Dr Shanice Mah (pictured right), who recently completed her PhD in the Centre and has been awarded a Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia Future Leaders award of $100,000 to support her lipids and prostate cancer program. (Salary and laboratory costs for 12 months).  

We also congratulate Professor Lisa Butler (pictured centre) on her appointment as Lead Associate of the South Australian Immunogenomics Cancer Institute.