{"id":2554,"date":"2016-02-16T15:55:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T05:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wimr.org.au\/?post_type=wimr_news&p=2554"},"modified":"2024-09-30T18:26:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T08:26:41","slug":"westmead-institute-cancer-researcher-named-one-of-the-brightest-emerging-scientists-in-the-field","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/wimr.org.au\/news\/westmead-institute-cancer-researcher-named-one-of-the-brightest-emerging-scientists-in-the-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Westmead Institute cancer researcher named one of the \u2018brightest\u2019 emerging scientists in the field"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Westmead Institute\u2019s research fellow Dr Heidi Hilton has been awarded a $200,000 Cure Cancer Australia sponsorship to continue her groundbreaking work into finding a cure for breast cancer.<\/p>\n

\"Breast
Cancer researcher Dr Heidi Hilton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is the second time Heidi has received the sponsorship, which is awarded to the country\u2019s brightest emerging cancer researchers.<\/p>\n

Dr Hilton\u2019s research project aims to discover why the ovarian hormones progesterone and estrogen act differently in normal breast tissue and in breast cancer, and what drives the change.<\/p>\n

Previously, Dr Hilton was awarded a Westmead Institute Science Prize for her work \u2013 published in the journal\u00a0Oncotarget<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u2013 \u00a0which demonstrated that estrogen receptors and progesterone receptors are quite distinct in the normal human breast but that their action and expression converge in breast cancer.<\/p>\n

This research changed our understanding of the role of these receptors in the breast, which were previously believed to always co-express in the same cell.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cUnless we understand accurately or completely how hormones work in the normal human breast, we are not going to understand breast cancer,\u201d Dr Hilton said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cUnless we understand accurately or completely how hormones work in the normal human breast, we are not going to understand breast cancer,\u201d Dr Hilton said.<\/p>\n

Dr Hilton hopes that her work will help researchers understand how abnormal hormone action may increase the risk of getting breast cancer \u2013 and how to prevent it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis support will provide a critical stepping stone for me to build a career in cancer research and contribute to the significant advances made here in Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n

The projects Cure Cancer Australia funds are considered the most likely to succeed based on their scientific merit.<\/p>\n

\u201cEarly career funding provides a much needed start for researchers who go on to achieve significant, often ground-breaking outcomes,\u201d Cure Cancer Australia Chief Executive Officer, Mrs Floyd Larsen said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Westmead Institute\u2019s research fellow Dr Heidi Hilton has been awarded a $200,000 Cure Cancer Australia sponsorship to continue her groundbreaking work into finding a cure for breast cancer. Cancer researcher Dr Heidi Hilton This is the second time Heidi has received the sponsorship, which is awarded to the country\u2019s brightest emerging cancer researchers. Dr […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2555,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"categories":[19],"class_list":["post-2554","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cat-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wimr.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wimr.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wimr.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wimr.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wimr.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wimr.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}