Professor Jon Emery
Herman Professor of Primary Care Cancer Research, Director of PC4, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC) Primary Care Research and Education Lead, NHMRC Leadership Fellow
Professor Jon Emery is the Herman Professor of Primary Care Cancer Research at the University of Melbourne, a new Chair developed within the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre. He is an NHMRC Practitioner Fellow, Director of the Cancer Australia Primary Care Collaborative Cancer Clinical Trials Group (PC4), and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He studied medicine at Cambridge and Oxford and obtained his DPhil at Oxford on computer decision support to assess cancer risk in general practice. His research interests are in the role of primary care in cancer prevention, diagnosis and follow-up, and primary care trials of complex interventions.
Prof Martin Delatycki
Prof Martin Delatycki is a clinical geneticist at Victorian Clinical Genetics Services and Co-Director of the Bruce Lefroy Centre at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. Martin has clinical and research interests in genetic screening and neurogenetics. He oversaw the setting up of a number of screening programs including those for cystic fibrosis and recessive conditions in the Jewish community. He is Co-Principal Investigator on a $20 million MRFF funded study of genetic screening for reproductive risk entitled Mackenzie’s Mission.