After 10 years as Director of Research at Peter
MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Professor Bowtell returned to full
time research in early 2010. He is Principal Investigator for the Australian
Ovarian Cancer Study, one of the largest population-based cohort studies
of ovarian cancer in the world, involving over 2000 women. Professor Bowtellfs
lab focuses on the genomic analysis of ovarian cancer and the genetic basis
of treatment resistance. His work ovarian cancer is part of the International
Cancer Genome Consortium, an ambitious program to map the genomes of the
50 most common cancer types. |