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Professor Lisa Horvath

Laboratory Head

Professor Lisa Horvath is the Director of Research and Senior Staff Specialist at the Chris O'Brien Lifehouse and Clinical Researcher heading the Advanced Prostate Cancer Group at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in The Kinghorn Cancer Centre. She is also the Professor of Medical Oncology (genitourinary cancer) at the University of Sydney and Chair of the Prostate Subcommittee of the Australian and New Zealand Urogenital and Prostate (ANZUP) clinical trials group. Having completed medical school at the University of Sydney and trained in medical oncology at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Lisa subsequently worked at Garvan completing her PhD in translational research in 2004. She was appointed to the senior staff of Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in 2003 (moved to Chris O’Brien Lifehouse in 2013) and has concurrently led an independent research group at Garvan for 15 years as a clinician scientist. She has published >110 original research papers published in peer-reviewed journals in the last 20 years across the fields of cancer biology, biomarkers and clinical trials.

Awards

  • 1989Grafton Elliot Smith Memorial Prize for Anatomy
  • 1989Herbert John Wilkinson Memorial Prize for Anatomy
  • 1999Medical Oncology Group of Australia / Asta Medica Educational Travel Grant
  • 2000 - 2003
  • 2000 - 2003NHMRC Medical Postgraduate Research Scholarship
  • 2002American Society of Clinical Oncology Merit Award
  • 2002Medical Oncology Group of Australia / GlaxoSmithKline Travel Grant
  • 2002Neupogen / Medical Oncology Group of Australia Advanced Trainee Award
  • 2004Medical Oncology Group of Australia / GlaxoSmithKline Travel Grant
  • 2018Prize for “Best of the best plenary presentation” - Medical Oncology Group of Australia

Selected Publications

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  • 2023
    Prostate cancer and prostatic diseases10.1038/s41391-023-00676-0

    Guidelines for genetic testing in prostate cancer: a scoping review.

    Haitham Tuffaha, Kim Edmunds, David Fairbairn, Matthew J Roberts, Suzanne Chambers, David P Smith, Lisa Horvath, Shiksha Arora, Paul Scuffham
  • 2021
    Genome medicine10.1186/s13073-021-00885-z

    Cryopreservation of human cancers conserves tumour heterogeneity for single-cell multi-omics analysis.

    Sunny Z Wu, Daniel L Roden, Ghamdan Al-Eryani, Nenad Bartonicek, Kate Harvey, Aurélie S Cazet, Chia-Ling Chan, Simon Junankar, Mun N Hui, Ewan A Millar, Julia Beretov, Lisa Horvath, Anthony M Joshua, Phillip Stricker, James S Wilmott, Camelia Quek, Georgina V Long, Richard A Scolyer, Bertrand Z Yeung, Davendra Segara, Cindy Mak, Sanjay Warrier, Joseph E Powell, Sandra O'Toole, Elgene Lim, Alexander Swarbrick
  • 2021
    Nature genetics10.1038/s41588-020-00748-0

    Trans-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of prostate cancer identifies new susceptibility loci and informs genetic risk prediction.

    David V Conti, Burcu F Darst, Lilit C Moss, Edward J Saunders, Xin Sheng, Alisha Chou, Fredrick R Schumacher, Ali Amin Al Olama, Sara Benlloch, Tokhir Dadaev, Mark N Brook, Ali Sahimi, Thomas J Hoffmann, Atushi Takahashi, Koichi Matsuda, Yukihide Momozawa, Masashi Fujita, Kenneth Muir, Artitaya Lophatananon, Peggy Wan, Loic Le Marchand, Lynne R Wilkens, Victoria L Stevens, Susan M Gapstur, Brian D Carter, Johanna Schleutker, Teuvo L J Tammela, Csilla Sipeky, Anssi Auvinen, Graham G Giles, Melissa C Southey, Robert J MacInnis, Cezary Cybulski, Dominika Wokołorczyk, Jan Lubiński, David E Neal, Jenny L Donovan, Freddie C Hamdy, Richard M Martin, Børge G Nordestgaard, Sune F Nielsen, Maren Weischer, Stig E Bojesen, Martin Andreas Røder, Peter Iversen, Jyotsna Batra, Suzanne Chambers, Leire Moya, Lisa Horvath, Judith A Clements, Wayne Tilley, Gail P Risbridger, Henrik Gronberg, Markus Aly, Robert Szulkin, Martin Eklund, Tobias Nordström, Nora Pashayan, Alison M Dunning, Maya Ghoussaini, Ruth C Travis, Tim J Key, Elio Riboli, Jong Y Park, Thomas A Sellers, Hui-Yi Lin, Demetrius Albanes, Stephanie J Weinstein, Lorelei A Mucci, Edward Giovannucci, Sara Lindstrom, Peter Kraft, David J Hunter, Kathryn L Penney, Constance Turman, Catherine M Tangen, Phyllis J Goodman, Ian M Thompson, Robert J Hamilton, Neil E Fleshner, Antonio Finelli, Marie-Élise Parent, Janet L Stanford, Elaine A Ostrander, Milan S Geybels, Stella Koutros, Laura E Beane Freeman, Meir Stampfer, Alicja Wolk, Niclas Håkansson, Gerald L Andriole, Robert N Hoover, Mitchell J Machiela, Karina Dalsgaard Sørensen, Michael Borre, William J Blot, Wei Zheng, Edward D Yeboah, James E Mensah, Yong-Jie Lu, Hong-Wei Zhang, Ninghan Feng, Xueying Mao, Yudong Wu, Shan-Chao Zhao, Zan Sun, Stephen N Thibodeau, Shannon K McDonnell, Daniel J Schaid, Catharine M L West, Neil Burnet, Gill Barnett, Christiane Maier, Thomas Schnoeller, Manuel Luedeke, Adam S Kibel, Bettina F Drake, Olivier Cussenot, Géraldine Cancel-Tassin, Florence Menegaux, Thérèse Truong, Yves Akoli Koudou, Esther M John, Eli Marie Grindedal, Lovise Maehle, Kay-Tee Khaw, Sue A Ingles, Mariana C Stern, Ana Vega, Antonio Gómez-Caamaño, Laura Fachal, Barry S Rosenstein, Sarah L Kerns, Harry Ostrer, Manuel R Teixeira, Paula Paulo, Andreia Brandão, Stephen Watya, Alexander Lubwama, Jeannette T Bensen, Elizabeth T H Fontham, James Mohler, Jack A Taylor, Manolis Kogevinas, Javier Llorca, Gemma Castaño-Vinyals, Lisa Cannon-Albright, Craig C Teerlink, Chad D Huff, Sara S Strom, Luc Multigner, Pascal Blanchet, Laurent Brureau, Radka Kaneva, Chavdar Slavov, Vanio Mitev, Robin J Leach, Brandi Weaver, Hermann Brenner, Katarina Cuk, Bernd Holleczek, Kai-Uwe Saum, Eric A Klein, Ann W Hsing, Rick A Kittles, Adam B Murphy, Christopher J Logothetis, Jeri Kim, Susan L Neuhausen, Linda Steele, Yuan Chun Ding, William B Isaacs, Barbara Nemesure, Anselm J M Hennis, John Carpten, Hardev Pandha, Agnieszka Michael, Kim De Ruyck, Gert De Meerleer, Piet Ost, Jianfeng Xu, Azad Razack, Jasmine Lim, Soo-Hwang Teo, Lisa F Newcomb, Daniel W Lin, Jay H Fowke, Christine Neslund-Dudas, Benjamin A Rybicki, Marija Gamulin, Davor Lessel, Tomislav Kulis, Nawaid Usmani, Sandeep Singhal, Matthew Parliament, Frank Claessens, Steven Joniau, Thomas Van den Broeck, Manuela Gago-Dominguez, Jose Esteban Castelao, Maria Elena Martinez, Samantha Larkin, Paul A Townsend, Claire Aukim-Hastie, William S Bush, Melinda C Aldrich, Dana C Crawford, Shiv Srivastava, Jennifer C Cullen, Gyorgy Petrovics, Graham Casey, Monique J Roobol, Guido Jenster, Ron H N van Schaik, Jennifer J Hu, Maureen Sanderson, Rohit Varma, Roberta McKean-Cowdin, Mina Torres, Nicholas Mancuso, Sonja I Berndt, Stephen K Van Den Eeden, Douglas F Easton, Stephen J Chanock, Michael B Cook, Fredrik Wiklund, Hidewaki Nakagawa, John S Witte, Rosalind A Eeles, Zsofia Kote-Jarai, Christopher A Haiman
  • 2019
    Cancer cell10.1016/j.ccell.2019.01.004

    DNA Hypermethylation Encroachment at CpG Island Borders in Cancer Is Predisposed by H3K4 Monomethylation Patterns.

    Ksenia Skvortsova, Etienne Masle-Farquhar, Phuc-Loi Luu, Jenny Z Song, Wenjia Qu, Elena Zotenko, Cathryn M Gould, Qian Du, Timothy J Peters, Yolanda Colino-Sanguino, Ruth Pidsley, Shalima S Nair, Amanda Khoury, Grady C Smith, Lisa A Miosge, Joanne H Reed, James G Kench, Mark A Rubin, Lisa Horvath, Ozren Bogdanovic, Sue Mei Lim, Jose M Polo, Christopher C Goodnow, Clare Stirzaker, Susan J Clark
  • 2018
    Clinical genitourinary cancer10.1016/j.clgc.2018.09.014

    Results of a Prospective Phase 2 Pilot Trial of Lu-PSMA-617 Therapy for Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Including Imaging Predictors of Treatment Response and Patterns of Progression.

    Louise Emmett, Megan Crumbaker, Bao Ho, Kathy Willowson, Peter Eu, Lalith Ratnayake, Richard Epstein, Ashley Blanksby, Lisa Horvath, Alex Guminski, Kate Mahon, Craig Gedye, Charlotte Yin, Phillip Stricker, Anthony M Joshua