Mr Michael Kerger
Position:
- Urological Biorepository and Data Manager, Biorepository, Australian Prostate Cancer Research, Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre Epworth Victoria
Biography:
After 15 years at The Burnet Institute, Epidemiology, Social Research and International Health Unit working in the area of HIV/AIDS and Hepatities, I joined the Robotic Surgery Team at Epworth, at Epworth. I established a clinical database on the early cases.
In 2004 I joined the Department of Urology at Royal Melbourne Hospital in the research team and in 2005 established the Urological Biorepository with a focus on Prostate Cancer tissue.
My focus is continuing and perfecting a well annotated accurate high quality tissue resource for research
Best publications:
Microscopic assessment of fresh prostate tumour specimens yields significantly increased rates of correctly annotated samples for downstream analysis: Kerger et. al. in print Pathology April 2012
Operative Details and Oncological and Functional Outcome of Robotic-Assisted Laproscopic Radical Prostatectomy: 400 Cases with a Minimum of 12 Months Follow-up. Murphy, Kerger et. al. European Urology (2009)
Molecular Epidemiology of Hepatitis C Virus in a Social Network of Injection Drug Users: Aitken, Kerger et. Al.
Biorepository, Prostte Cancer.
