M Patrick Callinan Academic Prize - St Mary’s College - University of Melbourne

Prize for Best knowledge - Singapore Armed Forces Officer Cadet School

National Breast Cancer Foundation White/Zaal Postgraduate Scholarship

Australian Stem Cell Research Center Postgraduate Award

Clinical Oncology Society of Australia Tumour Targeting Fellowship

Early Career Bench to Bedside Collaboration Award - Victorian Cancer Agency

Glaxosmithkine Postgraduate Award

Edith Moffatt Award - Walter & Eliza Hall Institute

JJ Billings Research Fellowship - Royal Australasian College of Physicians

Fulbright Victoria Fellowship.

National Health & Medical Research Council Overseas Biomedical Postdoctoral Fellowship

American Association of Cancer Research Scholar in Training Award

Claudia Barr Adams Award - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

National Breast Cancer Foundation Practitioner Fellowship

Ramaciotti Research Award

Connie Johnson/Love Your Sister Award

Thelma Greig Cancer Award - St Vincent's Clinic Foundation

National Breast Cancer Foundation Endowed Chair

Principal Cancer Theme Lead - Faculty of Medicine - UNSW Sydney

Cancer Council NSW Sally Crossing Award

101448 Elgene Lim

Professor Elgene Lim [ID_101448]-1747750184646

Sydney University Medal for Excellence in Medical Research

CINSW Early Career Fellowship

NSW Premier’s Award for Outstanding Research Fellow 2011

National Breast Cancer Foundation Fellowship

National Health and Medical Research Council Career Development Fellowship II

National Health and Medical Research Council Senior Research Fellowship

Petre Chair of Breast Cancer Research

National Health and Medical Research Council Senior Leadership Investigator

100366 Alexander Swarbrick

Professor Alexander Swarbrick [ID_100366]-1747750349075

Connaught Graduate Fellowship - University of Toronto

LH Ainsworth Scholarship in Cancer Research

Beth Yarrow Scholarship

Cancer Institute NSW Scholar

Young Garvan Fellowship

Cure Cancer Australia Postdoctoral Fellowship

National Breast Cancer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship

“Best Translational Research Presentation” - Lowy Cancer Symposium - UNSW - Sydney - Australia

Cure Cancer Conference and Professional Development Grant

Cancer Institute Career Development Fellowship

CHAMP Private Equity Young Pioneer Award

Heliflite Young Explorer Award

National Breast Cancer Foundation Career Development Fellowship

The Ridley Ken Davies Award

Cancer Institute NSW Fellowship

Mavis Robertson NBCF Fellowship

100531 Liz Caldon

Associate Professor Liz Caldon [ID_100531]-1747749988863

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Professor Elgene Lim Professor Eric Winer

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Annual Breast Cancer Public Lecture 2023

‘From the Breast Cancer Lab to You’ is our annual community update on breast cancer and includes presentations from Garvan and international research leaders, oncologists, patients and funding organisations. 

is the Principal Cancer Theme Lead at the Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney, and the inaugural National Breast Cancer Foundation Endowed Chair. Professor Lim's research findings the identification of the culprit cells in carriers of the BRCA1 mutant gene, a hereditary breast cancer syndrome. He completed his medical and oncology training, and doctoral research in Melbourne. Findings from his PhD research had a major impact on the identification of the culprit cells in carriers of the BRCA1 mutant gene, a hereditary breast cancer syndrome. He furthered his research and clinical training at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School through fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, and Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

Professor Alex Swarbrick is a Principal Research Fellow and Head of Garvan’s Tumour Progression Laboratory.

In 2012, Alex was appointed co-Head of the Breast Translational Oncology Program in The Kinghorn Cancer Centre. He is an Associate Professor at UNSW and an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow. Alex is the immediate-past convenor of the Lorne Cancer Conference, Australia's pre-eminent multi-disciplinary cancer research conference & the Australian Translational Breast & Prostate Cancer Symposium. He serves on the Cancer Research Committee of the Cancer Council NSW.

Associate Professor Liz Caldon leads the Replication and Genome Stability research group at Garvan. She studies the way that faulty DNA replication and cell division can alter the fate of a cancer cell.

Established in 2013, Liz's group works towards understanding the way that cancer cells evolve due to the selective pressure of therapeutic drugs and cancer driver genes called oncogenes. In her PhD studies, Liz investigated the interaction between hormone signalling and proliferative control of breast cancer cells. The primary goal of her research at Garvan is to understand the evolution of hormone therapy resistance in breast cancer, which is a major cause of breast cancer-related death. Based on their findings on the multi-step acquisition of hormone therapy resistance, Liz and her team are focused on translating knowledge about fundamental breast cancer biology and evolution into targetable therapies that provide clinical benefit.

Professor Eric Winer is from Yale University and is the ASCO President. He is an internationally renowed medical oncologist and expert on breast cancer.