Selected achievements

Awards 

2018 Jeanne Ferris Recognition Award, Gynaecological Cancer, Cancer Australia

2017-2019 Victorian Cancer Agency, Clinical Research Fellowship 

2013 100 Women of Influence Award, Fairfax Media and Westpac Group

2012-2016 Sir Edward Dunlop Cancer Research Fellow 

2010-2014 Cory Leadership Fellowship, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

Grants and funding 

2017-2022 Stafford Fox Medical Research Foundation – Ovarian Cancers Research Program: Matching a woman’s ovarian cancer to new treatments

2017-2021 NHMRC Project Grant – STICs and STONes: A Randomised, Phase II, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Aspirin in Chemoprevention of Ovarian Cancer in Women with BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutations

2017-2019 Victorian Cancer Agency Clinical Research Fellowship – Pre-clinical models of ovarian cancer subtypes and other rare cancers to enable new therapeutic approaches

2017-2019 Cancer Australia and the NBCF Project Grant – Phase II clinical trial of the PARP inhibitor, olaparib, in HR-deficient advanced breast and ovarian cancer in women without inherited BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations

2015-2019 Stafford Fox Medical Research Foundation – Rare Cancers Research Program: Changing the future for patients with rare cancers

Service to the community 

2015-current International Rare Cancer Initiative (IRCI), Board Member

2013-current Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Cancer, Editorial Board, Member

2011-current Gynaecologic Cancer Inter-Group (GCIG), Translational Research Committee Member (Chair 2014-2016; Co-Chair 2012-2014)

2011-current GCIG Rare Tumour Committee Member (Co-Chair Nov 2016-current)

2011-current European Network for Translational Research in Ovarian Cancer (EUTROC) Member

2010-current BRCA Targeted Therapies Consortium (BRCATAC), Investigator

2012-2014, 2017-2019 Mayo Clinic Ovarian SPORE, External Advisory Board Member