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Fellowship winners make cancer their focus
Date:2/25/2010

Two outstanding female scientists at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have been awarded research fellowships worth AU$1.75 million (US$1.5 million) to continue their cancer research.

The inaugural five-year Cory Fellowship, sponsored by the institute, has been awarded to Dr Clare Scott and the inaugural five-year Dyson Fellowship, sponsored by the Dyson Bequest, has been awarded to Dr Marnie Blewitt.

At a ceremony on 25 February, Nobel Prize winner for medicine Professor Elizabeth Blackburn announced Dr Scott and Dr Blewitt as the successful fellowship recipients.

Institute director Professor Doug Hilton said Clare and Marnie were worthy fellowship recipients, being stellar examples of researchers who were making important scientific discoveries and had the ability and drive to lead a research team.

"The Cory and Dyson Fellowships have made it possible for Marnie and Clare to spend more of the next five years concentrating on their science and less on applying annually for research funding," Professor Hilton said. "They are both outstanding research scientists and their appointments go some way to redressing the imbalance that exists in Australian science where there is a gross under-representation of women at senior levels."

The Cory Fellowship, named after Professor Suzanne Cory, the institute's first female director, was established last year by the institute to encourage outstanding female scientists to take up leadership positions in medical research. It is a five-year fellowship open to Australian women wanting their first opportunity to lead a laboratory at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute.

Cory Fellow Dr Scott, who became a laboratory head at the institute on 1 January and is also a medical oncologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, is trying to identify the genes and biological pathways that stop the body from efficiently killing lymphoma and cancer cells, including breast and ovarian canc
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Contact: Penny Fannin
fannin@wehi.edu.au
61-393-452-345
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
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