UQDI Seminar Series

Event Details

Date:

Wednesday, 21 April 2021

Time:

9:30 am - 10:30 am

Room:

Via Zoom - https://uqz.zoom.us/j/82998756231

UQ Location:

Translational Research Institute (Princess Alexandra Hospital)

Event category(s):

Full Description:: UQ Diamantina Institute Seminar Series
Guest speaker Professor Sherene Loi from the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.
Sherene will be presenting Journey into breast cancer immunology using genomics.

Wednesday 21 April, 9:30-10:30am, via Zoom: https://uqz.zoom.us/j/82998756231
Email di.admin@uq.edu.au for the Zoom password.

Sherene Loi’s Bio: Sherene Loi MD, PhD, is a clinician scientist and medical oncologist specializing in the treatment of breast cancer. She also leads a lab that focuses on understanding the genomic and immune interface in breast cancer with the aim to investigate and develop novel therapeutics in the preclinical space. Clinically her current research focus is the evaluation of novel and rational combinations of targeted and immune therapies for breast cancer patients. She leads the Breast Cancer Clinical Trials Unit at the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC) in Melbourne, Australia. She completed her medical oncology training in Melbourne, Australia. She worked in Brussels, at the Breast International Group clinical trials headquarters before returning to the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne in 2013. She also holds an Endowed Chair from the National Breast Cancer Foundation of Australia.