The GARVAN Institute of Medical Research is a multi-disciplinary facility with more than 600 scientists and PhD students working across five major divisions: Bone Biology, Cancer, Diabetes and Metabolism, Immunology, and Neuroscience.
In 2012 GARVAN and St Vincent’s Hospital opened The Kinghorn Cancer Centre in Darlinghurst. This new facility brings researchers and clinicians together allowing clinical challenges to directly drive laboratory research and research findings to be rapidly translated into the clinic for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of individual cancer patients. The Kinghorn Cancer Centre promises to revolutionise cancer treatment through its use of ‘personalised medicine’ – the right treatment for the right person at the right time. The major challenge facing ‘personalised’ medicine is drug resistance, ultimately leading to drug failure and death. The basic principles behind resistance are surprisingly poorly studied at the genomic level.
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