RESEARCHER PROFILE
Dr Josephine Wright
South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI)
Filmed September 2023
Dr Josephine Wright is a Senior Research Fellow in the Gut Cancer group. She has been developing a translational network of labs, hospitals and clinics to enable validation of new approaches to prevent and treat colorectal and gastric cancer. Her key focus is studying human tumour organoids to better personalise therapy in cancer.
Dr Wright is part of an international team of researchers from Adelaide and the United States that has engineered bacteria capable of detecting mutated DNA released from colorectal cancer cells, opening the door to faster disease detection.
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Dr Meghan McIlwain
DR MEGHAN MCILWAIN, CLINICAL RESEARCH MANAGER
PRESIDENT, THE NEW ZEALAND ASSOCIATION OF CLINICAL RESEARCH,
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND -
Dr James Pang
DR JAMES PANG, RESEARCH FELLOW
TURNER INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN AND MENTAL HEALTH, MONASH UNIVERSITY
VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA -
Professor Ramon Shaban
PROFESSOR RAMON SHABAN, CLINICAL CHAIR
COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL AND INFECTION PREVENTION
WESTERN HEALTH PRECINCT, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
