Stephan Ackland
Director
Health and Medicine
Newcastle University
Australia
Biography
Prof. Stephen Ackland is Staff Specialist, Department of Medical Oncology, Calvary Mater Newcastle Hospital and Professor, Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle. He is the Director, Hunter Cancer Research Alliance; Director, University of Newcastle Priority Research Centre for Cancer Research Innovation and Translation; Director of Clinical Cancer Research Network HNE Health; Co-director of Hunter Medical Research Institute Cancer Research Program. He has played a key role in organisation, harmonisation and enhancements of translational and clinical research locally, on a state basis and nationally. He is Editor-in-Chief, Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology. He is an inaugural member of the PRIMe consortium (Pharmacogenomics Research towards Individualised Medicine), a NSW Cancer Council-funded collaboration of 8 NSW hospitals and research institutes with the aim of facilitating cancer pharmacogenomics research in NSW.
Research Interest
Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences
