Professor Lord’s laboratory has been awarded a prestigious NHMRC Ideas Grant to study Barrett’s oesophagus and oesophageal adenocarcinoma. The project – which is lead by chief investigator Professor Lord – will be undertaken over the course of three years in collaboration with leading scientists at CSIRO and oesophageal experts in gastroenterology and pathology at other centres. There will be opportunities for patients to participate in studies for this project.

Professor Lord's team at the St Vincent's gastro-oesophageal cancer research laboratory Sydney, in collaboration with the sequencing facility at the Garvan St Vincent's Kinghorn Cancer Centre Sydney, have published the first report of the whole transcriptdome of Barrett's oesophagus and oesophageal adenocarcinoma.

This major landmark study has provided great insights into the biology of this disease, including important new information regarding how some patients with Barrett's oesophagus progress to develop oesophageal cancer.

For those interested, here is the link to the publication:
Transcriptdome sequencing publication in Molecular Cancer Research

This month, Professor Lord gave a keynote lecture at the 87th Annual Scientific Congress for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS).

Patients with Barrett's oesophagus may be interested in reading an article about Herb, an elderly man who had the endoscopic radiofrequency ablation procedure performed by Professor Lord.

Article: A life saving trial

For more reading material please visit: Research and Publications. There is a reading list located at the bottom of the page.

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