Australia Fellowship

Funding Activity

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Funded Activity Summary

Cancer immunology has emerged as a fundamental discipline of oncology and overwhelming new data from large patient studies reveals the importance of the immune reaction in patient prognosis. Professor Smyth has established a large body of work indicating that the immune reaction is rate limiting for the development of tumours. His previous fundamental work forms a platform to launch new studies that will greatly increase the sophistication with which we understand the various immune mechanisms that control tumour initiation, growth and metastases. It is a major goal of Professor Smyth’s Australia Fellowship to understand why some tumours may be controlled by the immune response while others are apparently not. He has established mouse models of cancer where these questions can be directly addressed for the first time.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2010

End Date: 01-01-2015

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Research Fellowships

Funding Amount: $4,066,666.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Tumour Immunology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

carcinogenesis | mmune responses | natural killer cells | tumour immunology | tumour immuntherapy