Online Postgraduate Lecture – Cancer Seminar Series hosted by Associate Professor Gemma Kelly

Associate Professor Marian Burr

Snow Medical Fellow and Research Group Leader

ACRF Department of Cancer Biology and Therapeutics

Division of Genome Sciences and Cancer

The John Curtin School of Medical Research

 

Immunotherapy

 

Davis Auditorium

Online access via Slido and enter code #WEHIpostgrad

Including Q&A session

Associate Professor Marian Burr is a clinician scientist, Snow Medical Fellow and research group leader at the John Curtin School of Medical Research and an honorary clinical fellow in Anatomical Pathology at The Canberra Hospital. Her research aims to understand how cancer cells evade surveillance and control by the immune system, and is coupled with a clinical interest in the pathology of lung cancer and other thoracic malignancies. Employing genome scale functional genetic screening her program has uncovered new targets for cancer immunotherapy, published in Nature and Cancer Cell, and ultimately aims to develop new treatments to overcome immunotherapy resistance and improve outcomes for patients with advanced cancers. Marian completed her early clinical training in the UK followed by a PhD in Immunology at the University of Cambridge. After undertaking clinical specialty training in histopathology in Cambridge, she was awarded a Cancer Research UK Clinician Scientist Fellowship in 2016 to pursue postdoctoral research at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. In 2021 she moved to ANU and established a laboratory in the Division of Genome Sciences and Cancer at the John Curtin School of Medical Research.

All welcome!