New prostate cancer grant
Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute (FHMRI) researcher, Associate Professor Luke Selth, has been awarded a $444,186 Cancer Council NSW grant.
Funding for his project, ‘Harnessing androgen-mediated viral mimicry to improve immunotherapy in prostate cancer’, builds on his long-running work on understanding and targeting androgen receptor signalling in prostate cancer, prostate cancer cell plasticity and how it leads to therapy resistance, and testing the efficacy of novel drugs for prostate cancer.
In this project, Associate Professor Luke Selth and his team are testing an entirely new strategy to treat prostate cancer with the goal of making prostate cancer more responsive to immunotherapy.
By using androgens to activate an important anti-cancer immune response, the research aims to determine whether treatment of prostate tumours with androgens can make them more visible to the immune system. This will make the prostate cancer cells more responsive to cancer immunotherapy. Metastatic prostate cancer remains incurable and kills more than 3,000 men in Australia every year.
Campaign to free Derek Bromley
Adjunct Flinders University associate professors Dr Bob Moles and Bibi Sangha, are supporting a fresh bid to have the High Court finally allow the release of South Australian prisoner Derek Bromley who was convicted for murder in 1984 and been eligible for parole for 16 years.
Their long-running campaign, recently supported by SA MP Frank Pangallo MLC, has led to letters to the Parliament and fresh news coverage, including The Australian and other media this week.
In claiming his innocence, Bromley has steadfastly refused to admit his guilt for the crime, rendering him ineligible for parole under current laws and leaving him behind bars after almost 40 years.
On 6 May, Associate Professor Sangha and Dr Moles will be part of a miscarriages of justice panel discussion at the opening of a new exhibition at Fremantle Prison in Western Australia.
“In all states and territories of Australia, we have experienced wrongful convictions to an extent which is unprecedented in any other common-law country,” he says.
The new ‘Denied: Portraits of Wrongful Convictions’ by artist Sky Parra will be on display until 10 September, as part of the 2023 Australian Heritage Festival.
An instinctual new book
A new book of poems from Associate Professor Steve Evans will be launched on Saturday 3 June, marking the 21st time that he has put pen to paper throughout his distinguished career.
Animal Instincts is a collection of almost 100 poems with one theme in common: animals.
To attend the launch at The Halifax Cafe on Saturday 3 June, please email Steve: stevewriter0001@gmail.com
Alumna named best in the business
Congratulations to Julia Dreosti (BA/LLB ’01, DipLang ’01) who has been named Arbitration Practitioner of the Year in Australia Disputes Centre’s annual Australian ADR Awards 2022.
The awards honour and recognise the hard work and successes of various dispute resolution practitioners and teams around Australia.