1 November 2004

Eminent Australian Delivers Lecture

Photo opportunity 3.45pm, Monday, 1 November, MSI Large Lecture Theatre, Wellcome Trust Biocentre , University of Dundee

Suzanne Cory, one of Australia's most distinguished cancer researchers will deliver the Peter Garland Lecture in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee at 4 pm on Monday, 1 November.

Suzanne's research has had a major impact in the fields of immunology and cancer.

Suzanne has received numerous honours awards for her research and scientific achievements, including the Burnet Medal of the Australian Academy of Science, the Australia Prize, the Charles S. Mott Prize (joint recipient) of the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation in 1998, the L'Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science Award in 2001 and the Royal Medal of The Royal Society of London in 2002. In 2002 she was appointed an Academician of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, which advises the Pope on scientific matters.

The Peter Garland Lecture is the School of Life Sciences' most prestigious lecture and seven of the last nineteen annual speakers have been Nobel Prize winners. Peter Garland became the first Professor of Biochemistry in Dundee in 1970 and over the next 14 years built it up into one of the strongest in the UK. Peter Garland will be attending the lecture.

Suzanne is currently the Director of The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and Professor of Medical Biology at the University of Melbourne.

The lecture, entitled "The Bcl-2 family: making life and death decisions in cells" will be held in the MSI Large Lecture Theatre, in the Wellcome Trust Biocentre at Dundee.

By Jenny Marra, Head of Press 01382 344910, out of hours: 07968298585, j.m.marra@dundee.ac.uk