2023 Tony Burgess Medal Address
22 June 2023
The Tony Burgess Medal was established to honour the significant contribution of Professor Burgess as a founding member of the VCCC Alliance Board, including the visionary role he played in bringing the integrated model of cancer care to Victoria to establish the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre.
University of Melbourne's Dr Shuai Li is awarded the 2023 Tony Burgess Medal at this event and delivers the plenary address, Innovative genetic and family studies for cancer aetiology and risk prediction.
Dr Shuai Li is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne and Deputy Head of the Breast Cancer Unit at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. He discusses his research to provide accurate estimates of cancer risk associated with breast cancer genes. Dr Li’s research program has published the world’s largest study of the risks associated with BRCA1 and BRCA2 in 24 cancers.
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