Westmead Dermatology
Striving towards disease-free skin
Are you interested in Honours at the University of Sydney? Through Honours in Applied Medical Science program at the University of Sydney, Westmead Campus, CTSR will be offering many exciting projects in 2021 that will cover your interests. Our projects include basic and translational research studies of diseases such as melanoma, non-melanoma skin cancers, cutaneous …
Recently, an open competitive grant application by members of the CTSR (Prof Pablo Fernandez-Penas as PI and Dr Ali Azimi as Sub-PI) was approved for funding by Pfizer through its Global Medical Grants Programme. The study is a 1.5 years long Phase IV clinical trial involving the investigation of the effect of nonsteroidal phosphodiesterase 4 …
By: Rachel Teh Celebrating its 25th birthday, the Annual Lorne Proteomics Symposium was held last week from the 6th to the 9th of February. This was the first proteomics conference that I had been to and it was absolutely fantastic. Ali and I decided to take the scenic route and drive 8 hours to the …
By: Steven Jabbour Having recently graduated, I decided to join the dermatology team at Westmead to pursue research in a field I am passionate about. Among the many exciting projects currently being undertaken by the team, the idea of a ‘scar-less’ biopsy was an interesting one that stood out to me. Actinic keratosis and Bowen’s …
Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma or cSCC is a very common malignancy worldwide, and the first as the cause of death from keratinocytic carcinomas. Around 5% of primary cSCCs metastasize to regional or distant body parts, leading to a 5-year survival rate of only 25-35%. Currently, clinical and histopathological assessment is used for the diagnosis of …
