Fighting breast cancer from a petri dish
Emma and her research team are using tumour samples donated by New Zealand breast cancer patients to create new 3D ‘living’ tumour models. This talk will give a rare insight into how scientists are able to grow cancer cells in the lab in order to discover new and better cancer treatments. Emma will explain the importance of ‘homegrown’ tumours and will highlight some key discoveries that have been made in cancer research in recent years, while also laying out the key challenges that still lie ahead.
Bio
Dr Emma Nolan is a cancer biologist and leader of the Translational Breast Cancer Laboratory at the University of Auckland. She completed her PhD at the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, where her research led to the first-ever international breast cancer prevention trial for women who inherit a faulty BRCA1 gene. Emma returned home to New Zealand last year to initiate a new breast cancer research group at the Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre, with a focus on developing New Zealand-specific tumour models to support cancer research in Aotearoa.
Event
8:00pm @La Zeppa, 33 Drake Street, Freemans Bay, Auckland 1010
Also speaking at this location at 6:30pm is Jessica Stubbing
