Marian Burr
A/Prof Marian Burr is a clinician scientist, Snow Medical Fellow and research group leader at the John Curtin School of Medical Research and an honorary clinical fellow in Anatomical Pathology at The Canberra Hospital. Her laboratory aims to understand the molecular mechanisms by which cancer cells evade surveillance and control by the immune system and apply this knowledge to develop novel therapeutic strategies to overcome immunotherapy resistance. Using genome scale functional genetic screening coupled with molecular biology, genomic and proteomic technologies, her program has identified novel targets for cancer immunotherapy in melanoma, lung cancer and high-grade neuroendocrine malignancies. Marian completed her early clinical training in the UK followed by a PhD in immunology at the University of Cambridge. After undertaking clinical specialty training in histopathology, she was awarded a Cancer Research UK Clinician Scientist Fellowship in 2016 to train in cancer epigenetics with Prof Mark Dawson at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. In 2021 she established a laboratory at JCSMR, where her research combines her interests in immunology, epigenetics and lung pathology with the ultimate aim of developing new treatments to overcome immunotherapy resistance and improve outcomes for patients with advanced cancers.
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