Professor Grant McArthur

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 and presented a plenary paper at the EORTC-NCI-ACCR Symposium on Molecular Targets  and  Cancer  Therapeutics. 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. His research Interests include clinical trials of targeted therapeutics, personalised medicine, melanoma, cell cycle control, and functional imaging.  Professor McArthur is on the Editorial Board for melanoma at Annals of Oncology and sits on the editorial board of 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  170 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.