Join our team

SAiGENCI is growing.  The Institute has recruited some remarkable cancer research talent to Adelaide.

Leadership team

Work with us

SAiGENCI is now calling for expressions of interest from established cancer research scientists or clinician researchers for up to a further 12 group leader appointments.  Generous five-year establishment grants are available to support appointment at academic level C, D or E in any of the following four programs of the Institute:

  • Cancer Epigenetics – working with Professor Jose Polo.
  • Computational Systems Oncology – bringing high-density data from the clinic and laboratories into one integrated environment and interrogating it to produce new insights about where and why cancer appears and progresses.
  • Resistance Prevention – exploring, explaining and preventing resistance to cancer therapies, including:
    • Hormone Dependent Cancers - with a focus on prostate and breast cancer, and
    • Paediatric and Neuro-oncology - focussing on the unique aspects of paediatric cancer as well as adult and paediatric brain tumours.
  • Tumour Inflammation and Immunotherapy – developing strategies to harness the immune system to tackle cancers.

To express interest in an exploratory discussion with SAiGENCI’s leadership please register either a full academic CV or link to online profile with a brief outline of your translational research aspirations.

Submit an Expression of Interest

Join our Consumer Advisory Group

We are seeking consumers and community members with an interest in; or lived experience with cancer to join our new SAiGENCI Consumer Advisory Group.

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