Keynote Speakers

Professor Clare Scott holds the chair in gynaecological cancer at the University of Melbourne and is joint-head of Clinical Translation and laboratory head at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and Medical Oncologist at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Royal Women’s and Royal Melbourne Hospitals. She has 20 years’ experience in clinical cancer genetics, including working in Familial Cancer Clinics. Her clinical expertise is in gynaecological cancers and coordinating care for patients with rare cancers. Her laboratory focuses on drug resistance in ovarian cancer and other rare cancer subtypes, generating patient-specific models to understand and avert resistance to targeted therapeutics, in particular, PARP inhibitors. Professor Scott chairs the COSA Rare Cancer group and has been awardedClinical Fellowships from theVictorianCancerAgency (2011, 2017), theSir EdwardDunlopCancerResearchFellow fromtheCancer Council Victoria (2012) and the 2018 Jeannie Ferris Recognition Award in Gynaecological Cancer fromCancer Australia.