Professor Lisa Horvath

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.