Dr Yu Yu from Curtin Medical School has been awarded the Tony McCartney Gynaecologic Oncology Special Grant, valued at $100,000, from the Women and Infants Research Foundation.

Her research will focus on developing a new treatment for chemotherapy-resistant ovarian cancer, one of the deadliest cancers affecting women. The project will test a specific antibody treatment that targets the survival pathways that cancer cells use to resist chemotherapy, with the aim of giving women more treatment options when standard approaches stop working.

Congratulations to Dr Yu Yu on this significant achievement. Read more in the media release here.