About
Professor Chenevix-Trench completed her PhD at the Medical College of Virginia (USA) in 1985 and came to QIMR Berghofer for a post-doc the following year. She established her own lab in 1992 when she received an NHMRC R. Douglas Wright award and has been continually funded by the NHMRC Fellowship/Investigator scheme. She is a founding member of the Kathleen Cuningham Foundation for Research into Familial Breast Cancer, which has provided data and biospecimens for her research for the last 20 years. Georgia has been instrumental in the establishment of key research resources and international consortia which have maximised the international research community’s access to biospecimens, and dramatically advanced our understanding of cancer. Her achievements include: co-discoverer of the PTCH gene responsible for Nevoid Basal Cell Carcinoma Syndrome; discoverer of the gene for Gastric adenocarcinoma and proximal polyposis of the stomach (GAPPS); co-discoverer of more than 250 genetic loci associated with risk of breast or ovarian cancer