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Dr Andrew Biankin

 

Senior Research Officer, Group Leader, Pancreatic Cancer Research, Cancer Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research; VMO General Surgery, Sydney Hospital and Sydney Eye Hospital; VMO Gastrointestinal Surgery, St Vincent's Private Hospital, and Strathfield Private Hospital, Sydney

Email: a.biankin 'at' garvan.org.au
Research Group: Pancreatic Cancer

 
 
Andrew recently returned to Australia from the Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA to head the pancreatic cancer research group at Garvan. His team group is working on identifying novel therapeutic, diagnostic, screening and chemoprevention strategies for pancreatic cancer.
 
 
 

Education

Awards and Honours

2007 Cancer Institute NSW Outstanding Fellow Award
2005 Cure Cancer Australia Young Investigator of the Year
2005 Johnson and Johnson Travel Grant, Surgical Research Society
2004 Excellence in Translational Research Award, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Dept of Pathology
2003 Thesis Prize, Garvan Institute of Medical Research
2003 - 2006 National Health & Medical Research Council, Neil Hamilton Fairley Postdoctoral Fellowship
2003 Travelling Fellowship, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
2002 Travelling Fellowship, St Vincent's Clinic Foundation
2002 Warren Fellowship (International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association)
2001 Annual St Vincent's Campus Research Symposium Award for excellence in research
2001 Young Investigator Award, Johns-Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA/The Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research
2001 Travelling Fellowship, International Surgical Society
2000 Annual St Vincent's Campus Research Symposium Award for excellence in poster presentation.
1999 - 2002 National Health & Medical Research Council, Medical Postgraduate Scholarship
1999 - 2002 Sir Roy McCaughey Fellowship, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
1999 Di Boyd Cancer Research Award, St Vincent's Clinic Foundation


Publications


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Areas of Interest

pancreatic cancer, retinoic acid signalling
 

News

 

New prostate cancer marker helps identify men whose cancer is likely to spread

05 Oct 2006
Prostate cancer researchers at Sydney’s Garvan Institute found a new marker for identifying aggressive prostate cancers.
 
 

2005 Young Investigator of the Year

01 Jul 2006
Dr Andrew Biankin, Head of Pancreatic Cancer Research, is the recipient of the highly acclaimed 2005 Cure Cancer National Young Researcher of the Year award.
 
 

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