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Cancer research
A researcher’s vision to analyse genes of young cancer patients to personalise their treatment has now become a virtual reality. Twenty years ago, Associate Professor Daniel Catchpoole developed an idea to examine complex data and deliver precision medicine through an immersive experience. Now, a prototype for ‘Virtual Reality for the Observation of Oncology Models’, VROOM for short, has be...
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Cancer
The Zero Childhood Cancer program, jointly run by the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network and the Children’s Cancer Institute, has received a further $1 million from the NSW Government. The funding builds on the $5.63 million awarded to the program in 2015, and will support life-saving work into childhood brain cancer research. The program currently offers Australia’s first ever personalise...
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Professor Jennifer Byrne, Department Head of the Children's Cancer Research Unit at Kids Research Institute,  The Children's Hospital at Westmead and Professor of Molecular Oncology at the University of Sydney, has today been named in international journal, Nature, as one of  the 'ten people who mattered this year.' She is the  only Australian included. Her work identifying...
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