Research into immunotherapy, pain treatments and preventing ovarian cancer has earned three PhD students from across the VCCC Alliance a Picchi Award for Excellence in Cancer Research.
The Picchi Brothers Foundation
Date: 23 September 2023 Click here to read
Dr Aaron Wong
St Vincent’s Hospital, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Thesis: Accelerating Pharmacogenomic Guided Opiod Prescribing into Clinical Practice in Cancer Patients, Department of Medicine, The University of Melbourne
Dr Aaron Wong is a trained palliative care physician and medical oncologist. He is Palliative Care Clinical Trials Lead at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and The Royal Melbourne Hospital, and is completing his PhD on the role of pharmacogenomics on opioid use for the treatment of pain due to advanced cancer.
