Below the Belt Research Fund
ANNUAL
REPORT 2024
Below the Belt Research Fund
ANNUAL
REPORT 2024
ANNUAL REPORT 2024
Below the Belt Research Fund
BELOW THE BELT AWARD 2023
The Below the Belt Research Fund provides much needed seed funding to support ANZUP members to progress new trial ideas to the point of becoming full scale studies. It has supported many members in the development of investigator-initiated studies. Below are the 2023 recipients of the Below the Belt Research Fund.
Ramesh Shanmugasundaram
BELOW THE BELT AWARD 2023
Craig Gedye
BELOW THE BELT AWARD 2023
Niall Corcoran
James Buteau
BELOW THE BELT AWARD 2023
UPDATES FORM BELOW THE BELT AWARD RECEIPIENTS
Chun Loo Gan
Dr Chun Loo Gan, a medical oncologist at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, is a recipient of the 2022 Below the Belt Research Fund.
Project title:
PREDICTing treatment response to first-line immunotherapy-based combinations with PSMA and FDG PET in advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma
Weranja Ranasinghe
Dr Weranja Ranasinghe, one of the urologists at Monash Health and Austin Health, was awarded the 2022 Below the Belt grant for his work in bladder cancer research.
Project title:
Utilising a pro-inflammatory gene signature and immune cell markers to identify non-muscle invasive bladder cancer patients at high risk of intravesical BCG failure
Megan Crumbaker
Dr Megan Crumbaker received the Below the Belt Research fund in 2021 for a study she is conducting along with Professor Anthony Joshua at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney.
Project title:
A Phase II study of high dose testosterone in combination with carboplatin in men with metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer
Andrew Weickhardt
Associate Professor Andrew Weickhardt, a recipient of the 2020 Below the Belt Research Fund, is conducting a study at the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Research Centre and St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney.
Project title:
68Ga-PSMA PET as a potential Imaging biomarker post tyrosine kinase inhibition of metastatic clear cell Renal cell Cancer (PIRC) – a pilot study