BIO – Professor Georgia Chenevix-Trench
Professor Georgia Chenevix-Trench is a NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow and Head of the Cancer Genetics Laboratory at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR). She is also the conjoint Professor in the Division of Health Sciences at the University of Queensland. She holds a BA (Hons) from the Department of Genetics at Trinity College in Ireland, and was awarded a PhD in 1985 from the Department of Human Genetics at the Medical College of Virginia in USA.
Her current research at the QIMR focussed mainly on the study of genes that predispose stomach, breast and ovarian cancers, and genes involved in response to chemotherapy in ovarian cancer patients. She has played in leading role in national efforts to establish resources for this kind of research, and is involved in many international consortia aimed at coordinating these gene finding efforts.
She possesses an impressive national and international profile, with invitations to speak at many conferences, including the International Ovarian Cancer Forum in Montreal, Canada in 2008 and, in 2010, the Eighth International Workshop on Pharmacodynamics of AntiCancer Agents, Hakone, Japan, the 12th Asian-Pacific Congress of Clinical Biochemistry, Seoul, Korea and the Illumina Asia Pacific & Japan User Symposium, Phuket, Thailand. She was the Sutherland Lecturer at the International Congress of Human Genetics in 2006.
Professor Chenevix-Trench is actively involved in community projects and has participated in the Work Experience Program for High School students at QIMR for the last 10 years, and has given many talks to community organizations such as Rotary Club, Zonta International and the CWA. In 1994 she was instrumental in staging a press campaign to draw attention to the lack of a clinical genetics service in Queensland, which resulted in the establishment of a Clinical Genetics Service that does outreach clinics all over the state.
She has received funding from many national and international grant funding bodies, and published more than 200 papers in peer reviewed journals. Professor Chenevix-Trench is a prominent public figure in her area of medical research. She has conducted several interviews for the radio and print media, most recently regarding papers in Nature and Nature Genetics on breast cancer susceptibility. In May 2003 she was invited to speak to ‘Women in Super’ about breast cancer research, and has spoken at several fundraising events for the National Breast Cancer Foundation.
See the links below for more information or further reading on Professor Georgia Chenevix-Trench and her work:
Queensland Institute of Medical Research – Cancer Genetics
Cancer Research Grants – QIMR – The ACRF Centre for Cancer Epigenetics
The Kathleen Cuningham Foundation for Research into Familial Breast Cancer
The Breast Cancer Association Consortium
The Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium
The Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1 and BRCA2
