"Colon Crypt Biology - Towards the Prediction of Cancer Drug Responses", 28 November

The Centre for Cancer Research will host a Special Seminar at 11:30am - 12:30pm, Tuesday 28th November 2017 in Seminar Room 2, Level 2 of the TRF Building.

Professor Tony Burgess will be presenting "Colon Crypt Biology - Towards the Prediction of Cancer Drug Responses"

Professor Tony Burgess is a colon cancer researcher and was Director of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Melbourne and Professor of Surgery at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, University of Melbourne for 30 years. Currently, he is a Laboratory Head at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. He is particularly interested in identifying the mechanisms which control crypt production in normal, adenomatous and cancerous colon tissue. This focus has led him to study the EGFR, wnt and notch signalling. In 2012, his laboratory started to grow mouse colon crypts and for the last two years members of his laboratory have been culturing human colon crypts.