Cancer Institute Seminar Series - Prof Bruce Robinson

Hosted by Professor Sergio Quezada

Bruce Robinson is a clinician-scientist and until recently, Director of a national Centre of Research Excellence, studying tumour immunology and asbestos cancers. The team members have published in many areas including cancer gene sequencing-defined tumour antigens, transgenic mouse models, immunopetidomics, tumour biomarkers, systems biology and novel clinical immunotherapy approaches that have led to ten world first clinical trials. He has published >220 scientific papers, >50 invited book chapters, numerous key invited reviews in top journals and 2 scientific books and numerous key invited reviews in top journals such as Nature Reviews Immunology, Nature Reviews Cancer, New England Journal of Medicine and Lancet.
 
He has received the international Wagner Medal, AMA, TSANZ and RACP medals and the Premier’s Science and Saint Awards. He received an Order of Australia, and was Western Australian of the Year in 2013. He has also written 3 best-selling books on fathering, provides volunteer medical services during disasters in Asia, speaks five languages and was an All-Australian footballer.

• Prof Bruce Robinson academic profile

A light lunch will be served after the seminar. 

This seminar has been sponsored in part by the Biomedical Research Centre and Cancer Research UK