Brendan JenkinsProf. Brendan Jenkins is an internationally renowned researcher who studies inflammation-associated cancers of the stomach, pancreas and lung, the latter of which is also linked to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). His vision is to identiy and develop new diagnostics and immunotherapies for these diseases. Prof. Jenkins is head of the Cancer and Immune Signaling Laboratory of the Hudson Institute of Medical Research in Victoria, Australia, and he is also a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences of Monash University. He has received over 20 national and international awards for his research and is a Senior Research Fellow of the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (2014-2023); prior to that he held a prestigious Viertel Senior Medical Research Fellowship (2009-2013). He received his PhD in Medicine from the University of Adelaide, South Australia in 1998. Read More Read Less