Medulloblastoma is curable in approximately 70 % of patients. Over the past decade, progress in improving survival using conventional therapies has stalled... ...

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• 2013
• November 2013

We strive for a future where no child will die from brain cancer because we have developed new therapies that will cure their disease. ...

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This Australia-wide study examines whether maternal intake of folate and vitamins B6 and B12 during pregnancy is associated with development of brain tumors... ...

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• 2014
• June 2014

Senior Program Manager; Deputy Theme Head, Brain and Behaviour ...

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Interest in a possible protective effect of maternal vitamin use before or during pregnancy against childhood brain tumors (CBT) and other childhood cancers... ...

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• 2012
• November 2012

The development of Vigilant Attention (VA), the ability to focus and maintain our attention to repetitive and cognitively unchallenging tasks over time, has been investigated for more than a decade. The development of this critical executive function across the lifespan has been characterised by a rapid improvement in VA performance throughout childhood and adolescence, a steady improvement in adulthood and a slow decline in older adulthood. ...

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• 2021
• September 2021

A novel mouse model for glioma demonstrating that the PI3K pathway is important for initiation of tumorigenesis ...

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• 2018
• September 2018

Emily Terrance Anya Brittany Fletcher Johns Jones Dewdney EF T AJ BD BSc (Hons) MRes PhD BSc MSc PhD BSc, MBSc, PhD Senior Research Fellow Honorary ...

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These findings implicate the activation of STAT3 as one pathway that may mediate resistance to IGF-II-targeted therapy in HCC ...

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• 2018
• August 2018

We identified numerous CpGs differentially methylated in relation to gestational age at birth that appear to reflect fetal developmental processes across tissues ...

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• 2020
• March 2020