“Integrative approaches to identifying new causes of familial breast and ovarian cancer”

Prof Campbell is currently a group leader at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Professor in the Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology at the University of Melbourne and is Principal investigator of the Lifepool cohort study. Prof Campbell completed his PhD (1986) in the Department of Microbiology, University of Western Australia and undertook 5 years of post-doctoral work in London, UK at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer Research UK). In 1993 he headed his own laboratory at the Princess Anne Hospital, University of Southampton, UK where he gained international recognition research into the genetics of breast and ovarian cancer.

In 1999 he was recruited as a group leader at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre where his laboratory is regarded as one of Australia’s leading breast and ovarian cancer genetics facilities and his laboratory has international recognition for work on the discovery of new familial breast and ovarian cancer predisposition genes through innovative large scale sequencing approaches. Professor Campbell has also made a series of seminal contributions to the understanding of the aetiology of ovarian cancer and continues a leading international role into somatic molecular analyses of breast and ovarian cancers.

He is the lead investigator of the Lifepool cohort which is a cohort of 55,000 women attending Breast Screening services (www.lifepool.org) and is a leading international resource for research into breast cancer epidemiology, biology and genetics.

A light lunch will be served in the foyer following the presentation.