Associate Professor Lisa Butler

Position:

• Head, Prostate Cancer Research Group, Medicine, University of Adelaide

Websites:

• http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/lisa.butler
• https://www.sahmri.com/our-research/themes/cancer/groups/prostate-cancer-research-group/group-leader

Biography:

A/Prof Lisa Butler is an ARC Future Fellow at the University of Adelaide and heads the Prostate Cancer Research Group at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute. She holds a Ph.D. in cancer biology from the University of Adelaide with postdoctoral training in preclinical drug development at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York. A/Prof Butler’s research focuses on novel combinatorial approaches to target androgen signalling therapeutically in prostate cancer and biomarker discovery. She also has a strong interest in the development and utilisation of novel preclinical models of disease, including mouse models and human tumour explants.

Best publications:

Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=cLLoDqgAAAAJ&hl=en

Research keywords and interests: cancer progression, gene regulation, metastases, model systems, mouse models of cancer, systemic therapies, novel therapeutics, cell biology.