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Samantha Oakes is an Adjunct Associate Professor at St. Vincent's Clinical School, University of New South Wales, specializing in medical research with a focus on breast cancer. She earned her PhD in 2007 from the University of New South Wales, where her research contributed significantly to understanding the role of the pituitary hormone prolactin in triple negative breast cancer. Following this, she was awarded the NHMRC Early Career Fellowship and conducted research at the Walter Eliza Hall Institute. Samantha played a pivotal role in the Long Term Follow Up Unit of the Molecular Screening Therapeutics Program at the Garvan Institute, which is the largest cancer genomic medicine program in Australia. Her work is centered on uncovering the survival mechanisms of cancer cells which are intricately linked to tumor progression, invasion, and therapeutic resistance. Through her research, she has made major contributions to the understanding of cancer cell biology, particularly in the context of breast cancer, and has been instrumental in developing therapeutic strategies targeting cancer cell survival. Samantha's research interests include cancer cell survival, specialized signaling in breast cancer, and genomic medicine, all aimed at improving clinical outcomes for patients suffering from aggressive forms of cancer.
St. Vincent's Clinical School, UNSW Medicine • Sydney, Australia
Conducting research and teaching in the field of Medicine at the University of New South Wales.
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