Lorne Cancer Conference 2025
The South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n immunoGENomics Cancer Institute (SAiGENCI) and (ACE) were well represented at the 37th annual held from the 13th to 15th of February in Lorne, a coastal town on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria.

SAiGENCI and ACE members at the Lorne Cancer Conference dinner.
L-R:Â Dr Fiona Zhou, Dr Joanna Achinger-Kawecka, Geri Laven-Law, Dr Holly Pinkney, Dr Nora Liu, Jacob Truong, An Nguyen, Professor Jose Polo, Tianjun Zhang, Professor Lisa Butler, Dr Ning Liu, Dr Qi Zhang.
A warm congratulations to our PhD candidates who presented their research at the meeting this year.
- - Establishment of a novel syngeneic mouse model to study the role of sphingolipid metabolism in prostate cancer (poster presentation).
- Jacob Truong - Identifying prognostic lipid signatures associated with clinical disease relapse in patients with localised prostate cancer by spatial mass spectrometry imaging (invited talk).
- Tianjun (Percy)Â Zhang - Revealing transcription factor networks driving neuroendocrine-like reprogramming in prostate cancer (poster presentation).
Other SAiGENCI/ACE presenters included , , , Dr Holly Pinkney, and Dr Fiona Zhou.