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Cancer research award winner spurred on by his own diagnosis – Sydney Morning Herald
After finding that cancerous cells contain high levels of copper, Orazio Vittorio is exploring how drugs that expel copper from the body might improve children’s…
Now on the other side of treatment and on the other side of the world at the University of NSW’s Lowy Cancer Institute Dr Vittorio was, on Thursday, awarded the career development fellowship at the Premier’s Awards for Outstanding Cancer Research for his groundbreaking work in children’s treatment with the Children’s Cancer Institute.
His research focuses on the differences between how normal cells and cancerous cells behave. One of his key discoveries was that cancerous cells contain high levels…
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