The 2023 Tony Burgess Medal will be presented to Dr Shuai Li by Professor Tony Burgess.
Dr Shuai Li is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne and Deputy Head of the Breast Cancer Unit at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health.
He will discuss his research to provide accurate estimates of cancer risk associated with breast cancer genes.
Dr Li’s research program has published the world’s largest study of the risks associated with BRCA1 and BRCA2 in 24 cancers.
The Tony Burgess Medal was established to honour the significant contribution of Professor Burgess as a founding member of the VCCC Alliance Board, including the visionary role he played in bringing the integrated model of cancer care to Victoria to establish the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre.
Professor Tony Burgess AC FAA FTSE is one of Australia’s top cancer researchers, the former Director of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Melbourne, Professor of Surgery at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, University of Melbourne and Laboratory Head at WEHI. He has an illustrious research history with over 300 publications to his name and has given numerous keynote speeches at Institutes and conferences around the world. He discovered the haemopoietic growth factor G-CSF and was part of the team which cloned murine GM-CSF. Much of his research involved the study of epithelial cancers and he was a leader of the team which solved the 3D structures of the EGFR and HER2 extra-cellular domains.
Throughout his career, Professor Burgess was also a strong force in the advancement of cancer management and research, having been involved in at least thirty scientific committees, boards and funds. In 1998 he was appointed a Companion of General Division of the Order of Australia (AC) for his outstanding services to science and medicine, especially in the field of cancer research.
