Prostate Cancer Research Group
Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute

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Current projects | Student research projects

Our research vision is that the excellence and innovation in our biomedical and translational research will inform and guide genitourinary oncology practice, including clinical trials, for patient benefit. In turn, we gratefully acknowledge consumers, patients and their families for supporting our research.

Whether you want to research, invest, donate or partner with us to accelerate our life-changing discoveries, we'd be delighted to hear from you. We have opportunities for PhD students, post docs and senior researchers to join our lab. Feel free to contact Professor Gail Risbridger and Professor Renea Taylor with any queries.

Ashlee Clarke, a PhD student in the Prostate Cancer Research Group in 2013,
describes her research and what it is like to work in this lab.

Richard Rebello, a PhD student in the Prostate Cancer Research Group in 2013, describes his research
and what it is like to work in this lab. In his own words: "I'd absolutely recommend Gail's lab for two reasons:
one - they are so supportive and two - they are leaders in research and people to look up to”.

Clinical partners

  • Australian Urology Associates
  • Cabrini Health
  • Eastern Health
  • Epworth Healthcare
  • Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
  • Monash Health
  • St Vincent’s Melbourne and Prostate Cancer Outcomes Registry - Victoria

Community engagement

We gratefully acknowledge consumers, patients and their families for supporting our research.

We invite members of the community to join us on Lab Open Days in affiliation with the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia Support Group Network.

Our donors

“The generous contribution from the EJ Whitten Foundation brings clinicians into our Monash BDI laboratories, which takes the research to a whole different level. The program becomes much more focused on patient outcomes. Working together, we have a better understanding of the research and experiments that need to be done to have real impact on a patient. It has enabled what I would call visionary research. We cannot thank the Foundation enough for their enduring support.”

— Professor Gail Risbridger, Head, Prostate Cancer Research Group, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute.

Prostate cancer claims the lives of more than 60 men each week in Australia. The Monash BDI's Prostate Cancer Research Group
- with the generous support of the EJ Whitten Foundation - are aiming to change this. Medical research needs
funding, and philanthropy allows us to have tomorrow’s research, today.

With cutting-edge medical engineering offering new approaches to managing and treating prostate cancer, Professor
Renea Taylor is paving the way for the development for better-targeted treatments for prostate cancer.
This ground-breaking research has the potential to take the guesswork out of future treatments.

We gratefully acknowledge the funding given to our lab by our current funding partners:

  • National Health & Medical Research Council
  • Movember Foundation & Australian Government Cancer Australia
  • Movember & National Breast Cancer Foundation
  • Cancer Australia
  • Victorian Cancer Agency
  • USA Department of Defense, Office of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs
  • EJ Whitten Foundation
  • The CASS Foundation
  • Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia
  • Monash University
  • Peter MacCallum Cancer Foundation
  • Cancer Council Victoria
  • Australian Research Council

Selected funding groups