Westmead Dermatology
Striving towards disease-free skin
This Monday 12th September 2022, the University of Sydney School of Medical Sciences (SoMS) Honours Showcase was held at the Westmead Health Precinct Innovation Centre. The event included the current Honours students presenting posters on their projects, as part of their honours program. In addition, it provided an opportunity for prospective Honours students to meet prospective Supervisors. …
We have recently open our clinical trials for recruitment. We had to close recruitment again during the peak of the COVID pandemic and we modified our protocols to safely continue with all patients on trials. But skin conditions do not disappear, and patients continue suffering from their skin diseases. The teams at Westmead Dermatology (Westmead …
The Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF) Australian Centre of Excellence in Melanoma Imaging and Diagnosis (ACEMID) project was officially launched on the 13 September 2021. It has been 3 years of hard work from our teams at University of Sydney, The University of Queensland and Monash University to get all the governance structure and to …
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Our dataset brief has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Proteomics. It features our very own in house skin cancer specialised protein library suitable for data-independent applications. We used proteins collected from various sample types such as formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded samples of skin biopsies, human skin cancer cell lines, and tape stripping of the …
We are pleased to announce that Dr Ali Azimi, a member of the CTSR, was this week awarded the Sydney West Translational Cancer Research Centre (SW-TCRC) Early Career Accelerator Grant. The grant which includes salary support and direct research costs will allow Dr Azimi to continue his research works involving the proteomic investigation of early melanoma …
The 8th Annual Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre Symposium was held in Sydney today. This event was attended by clinical and basic cancer researchers from across Australia. Our PhD student Ms Rachel Teh and honours student Mr Steven Jabbour were two of the many researchers who presented their recent works on various cancers. Rachel spoke …
