Top Australian scientist takes another win for cancer research Posted on March 13, 2012February 25, 2018 by Carly du Toit The Australian Cancer Research Foundation would like to congratulate Professor John Mattick, Executive Director of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney. Professor Mattick has become the first Australian honoured with the esteemed Chen Award, an accolade awarded by the Human Genome Organisation to recognise academic achievement in human genetic and genomic research. Professor Mattick is being commended for his pursuit of a then-radical theory regarding Human DNA. He has been described by the Award Reviewing Committee as a “true visionary in his field.” Ever since DNA was found to be a double helix, scientists had believed that most genes comprised the written instructions for proteins, which were in turn the building blocks of all body processes. Professor Mattick however, argued that the assumption was true for bacteria, but not for complex organisms like humans. Continue reading “Top Australian scientist takes another win for cancer research”
