Professor Angel Lopez Archives

The Lowy Symposium has revealed significant developments for cancer treatments and cure during what has been an eventful month for researchers leading up to the opening of the new state-of-the-art Lowy Cancer Research Centre.

Australian and international scientists came together to share real-time data on the latest studies, and to engage in discussion and debate for improving future research.

Advanced equipment and technologies, and recent breakthroughs in drug therapies were among the highlights from the symposium.

Associate Professor Ricky Johnstone from the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne said: “Throughout the meeting there was an emphasis on the use of cutting-edge platform technologies such as high throughput chemical screening and molecular imaging.”

Researchers also discussed the emergence of sophisticated new methods for discovering cancer drugs. One of those is structural biology, where scientists analyse the structure of protein molecules at a three-dimensional level. Continue reading “Global cancer research leaders gather”

An Australian researcher funded by the Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF) is part of the team which has developed a new approach to the treatment of acute leukemia.

The antibody used in the new research was first created by ACRF funded Professor Angel Lopez now at the Centre for Cancer Biology in Adelaide, South Australia.

The research targets myeloid leukemia (AML), one of the most aggressive forms of leukemia.

Quoted in the July 2 issue of prominent research journal, Stem Cell, Associate Professor Richard Lock, Head of the Leukemia Biology Program at Children’s Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research (CCIA) and the University of New South Wales – who have also received major funding from ACRF – said the findings were an exciting development towards finding more effective treatments for this rare but deadly disease.

Continue reading “ACRF funded scientist delivers a new way to hit leukemia”