Amount Granted: $2 million

Chief Investigator: Professor Andrew Scott

Research Project: Imaging technologies for the ACRF Centre for Translational Cancer Therapeutics and Imaging

Cancer Types: All cancers

Project Description: The ACRF Medical Research Advisory Committee gave a score of ‘excellence’ to research studies being undertaken by this group, and considered these studies to be novel, innovative and likely to be highly effective.

The hospital with which this research centre is associated, the Austin Hospital in Melbourne, is a pre-eminent centre for imaging of human cancer, and this work relies heavily on the research undertaken through the international network of Ludwig research centres.

The ACRF grant awarded to the Ludwig Institute will help the research team to develop a new facility that will significantly increase our understanding of the underlying causes of cancer, while exploring new therapeutic approaches. Their approach is to expand the utility of existing antibodies specific for targeting particular cancer antigens by adapting them for cancer imaging or targeted therapies.

This grant will enable this world-class research centre to purchase significantly more sophisticated equipment which will speed up their research, and ultimately, their discoveries.

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