Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Medical Oncology Department

Cancer’s Game Changers.

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre are a leader in the area of clinical treatment and translational research across a wide range of cancers. Housed in a brand new building in the heart of Melbourne, Australia, Peter Mac is home to world-class medical oncology clinician researchers who are making major differences in the field of oncology, and in their patients lives.

Professor Danny Rischin (Director, Department of Cancer Medicine & head of Dept Medical Oncology) has made major breakthroughs with a clinical trial demonstrating the new immunotherapy drug cemiplimab. James Dunn, a long-time patient of Peter Mac, has seen incredible results in his advanced skin cancer.

Cutting edge research and discoveries at Peter Mac have resulted in major advances in patient care, disease treatment breakthroughs and development of devices, technologies and medicines that have saved and improved lives. Professor Sherene Loi is head of the Translational Breast Cancer Genomics Laboratory and is working on better unstanding the mechanisms behind Breast Cancer, and working on new immunotherapies for the disease. Professor Ben Solomon is a medical oncologist with a research focus on clinical and translational research in lung cancer and head and neck cancer, who work includes cutting edge research using CAR-T cells.

By combining diverse expertise in a state-of-the-art environment, Peter Mac's cliniciains researchers are changing the game in medical oncology.