Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

Postdoctoral fellowships are awarded for one year, to newly qualified researchers to help them bridge the gap between being a student and a fully-fledged cancer researcher.

See our Guide to Applicants for information on applying for a postdoctoral fellowship.

Postdoctoral fellowships are valued at around $68,725 each. Fellowship holders for 2012 are:

Dr Hongdo Do
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Department of Pathology
Improved detection of clinically important mutations in lung cancer

Dr Denise Miles
Monash Institute of Medical Research
Defining the genetic base of testis cancer
Sydney Parker Smith Fellowship

Mrs Andrea Newbold
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Cancer Immunology Research
Use of sophisticated gene knockdown technologies to identify HDACs critical for cancer cell survival
Sydney Parker Smith Fellowship

Miss Dimitra Zotos
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
The contribution of Bcl-6 to B cell derived tumours of varying origin