New South Wales Cancer Institute Awards
The Cancer Institute NSW Premier’s Awards for Outstanding Cancer Research are the premier awards ceremony for the cancer research sector in NSW. Now in its tenth year, the event honours the achievements of the individuals and teams that work across the cancer research sector to lessen the impact of cancer for the people of NSW.
These awards are an opportunity to honour the state’s outstanding cancer researchers whose brilliant minds together with their commitment to years and even decades of focused work have led to new discoveries about cancer diagnoses, treatments and survival. Their achievements reflect that improving cancer outcomes is a series of incremental steps.
As the NSW Government’s cancer control agency, the Cancer Institute NSW supports, facilitates and collaborates with all in the cancer control sector to translate new discoveries in to meaningful knowledge to improve the health system of NSW. This new information is providing the evidence we need to drive rapid improvement in cancer prevention, treatment, care and ultimately, survival outcomes.
Visit the 2016 NSW Premier's Awards for Outstanding Cancer Research. The award categories are:
- Outstanding Cancer Researcher of the Year - 2016 winner, Professor John Simes[1]
- The Professor Rob Sutherland AO Make a Difference Award - 2016 winner, Professor Minoti Apte OAM[2]
- Outstanding Cancer Research Fellow - 2016 winner, Dr Zaklina Kovacevic
- The ‘Rising Star’ PhD Student Award - 2016 winner, Dr Andrew Chen
- Big Data, Big Impact - 2016 winner, Associate Professor Daniel Catchpoole and Team, Sydney Children’s Hospital Network
- Excellence in Translation Cancer Research - 2016 winner, Dr Natalie Taylor and Team, Australian Institute of Health Innovation Behaviour Change Research Stream
- The ‘Wildfire’ Highly Cited Publication Award - 2016 winner, Dr James Wilmott
- Innovation in Cancer Clinical Trials - 2016 winner, Central Coast Local Health District