Grant McArthur, PhD

Professor Grant McArthur is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and holds a Ph.D. in Medical Biology. He has been appointed the inaugural Lorenzo Galli chair position in Melanoma, University of Melbourne, Co-Head Cancer Therapeutics and Practitioner Fellow NHMRC. In 2004 he was awarded the Translational Research Award of the Foundation Nelia et Amadeo Barletta. In 2005 he was awarded the Sir Edward Dunlop Clinical Cancer Research Fellowship of the Cancer Council of Victoria. He is national and international study Co-Chair of a number of clinical trials of targeted therapies. In 2015 he was inducted into the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science. His research Interests include clinical trials of targeted therapeutics, personalised medicine, immune-oncology, melanoma, cell cycle control, and functional imaging. Professor McArthur sits on the Editorial Boards of Annals of Oncology, Anti-Cancer Drugs, the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the Open Clinical Cancer Journal, Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology and the Journal of Personalised Medicine. He has had over 180 publications including senior or first author publications in the following journals: New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Lancet Oncology, Cancer Discovery, Cancer Cell, Nature Cell Biology, Blood and EMBO.