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Doctor behind cancer breakthrough wins PM’s top prize – Chinchilla News
An Australian professor responsible for revolutionising blood cancer treatments has been awarded the Prime Minister’s prestigious annual top science prize.
Professor Mark Dawson couldn’t understand why some of his patients with identical cancers responded differently to the same cancer treatment.
His frustration led him back to the lab – which not only resulted in the development of new lifesaving drugs – but being awarded the prestigious Frank Fenner Prize for Life Scientist of the Year.
“Patients with essentially what looks like exactly the same cancer, we give them the same treatment and one gets cured and the other patient gets no benefit,” Professor…
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