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MOGA-Roche Consultant Travel Grant 2010

The Medical Oncology Group of Australia and Roche Australia are pleased to call for applications for a Consultant Travel Grant valued at $5,000. The grant is offered to assist a medical oncology consultant to attend and deliver a presentation at a major international oncology meeting in 2010 (for instance, ASCO, ECCO or ESMO).
 
Applications have yet to open.
 
Past Award Recipient:
 

Dr Anna Nowak
 
Dr Anna Nowak attended 2008 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Scientific Meeting in San Diego in April 2008 to present the abstract entitled: Cisplatin and pemetrexed synergises with immunotherapy to result in cures in established murine malignant mesothelioma.
 
"I was delighted to receive the 2008 MOGA/Roche travel grant, which enabled me to attend the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Scientific Meeting in San Diego in May this year. Despite doing a PhD in tumour immunology, international conferences with a clinical component, such as ASCO, have always been higher on my agenda than basic research conferences. At ASCO, whilst I try to attend as many translational science sessions as possible, there is always the ‘pull’ of the clinical sessions which promise changes to patient management tomorrow or next year rather than in 10 years time. So it was wonderful to attend my first basic research international meeting and to be able to immerse myself in science for a week. I was able to go to not only the tumour immunology sessions, but also to spend time learning about other fields I am less familiar with. Even the trade display held new information – I am now looking at animal management and laboratory software that I didn’t know existed. I also participated in networking sessions for junior faculty, making useful international contacts. My poster presentation “Cisplatin and pemetrexed synergises with immunotherapy to result in cures in established murine malignant mesothelioma” generated plenty of interest, and I have come back with new ideas. I would highly recommend AACR to any oncologists doing laboratory research, and my thanks go to MOGA and Roche for supporting me to attend this meeting." Dr Anna Nowak.
 
 

Roche Trainee Travel Grants 2009

The Medical Oncology Group of Australia and Roche Australia are pleased to call for applications for two Trainee Travel Grants each valued at $5,000. The grants are offered to assist two medical oncology advanced trainees to attend and make a presentation at a major international oncology meeting in 2010 (for instance, ASCO, ECCO or ESMO).
 
Applications have yet to open.

 
 
Past Award Recipient:
 

Dr Prunella Blinman
 
Dr Prunella Blinman, NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney-Trainee Travel Grant. Dr Blinman will deliver a presentation at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Meeting in Chicago in June 2008 with a poster entitled: Patients’ preferences for adjuvant chemotherapy (ACT) in early colon cancer (ECC): what makes it worthwhile?
 
 

Roche Annual Scientific Meeting Prizes

Roche has previously provided prizes of $3,500 for each award listed below, presented at the Medical Oncology Group of Australia's Annual Scientific Meeting.
 
Past Award Recipients:
 
Best Consultant Oral Presentation 2008 - Dr Weng Ng for the presentation: Optimal chemotherapy utilisation rate in cancer care: setting an evidence based benchmark for the best quality cancer care.
 
Best Consultant Poster Presentation 2008 - Dr David Joseph for the poster: Quallity of life during the first year in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer receiving either short course or long course preoperative radiation and adjuvant chemotherapy. An Intergroup trail with TROG, AGITG, CSSA and RACS.
 
Best Trainee Poster Presentation 2008 - Dr Johnson Liu for the poster: Copper transporter 1 (ctr1) expression and localisation in rat dorsal root ganglia (DRG) and its relationship to platinum neuropathy.