Dr Stephin Vervoort wins $1.25M CSL Centenary Fellowship

Dr Stephin Vervoort has been awarded a 2022 CSL Centenary Fellowship to fund his research to find new treatments for leukaemia and other types of cancers.

Dr Stephin Vervoort will use his funding to establish a laboratory at WEHI, where he will unravel fundamental steps in transcription of DNA into mRNA. He will use that knowledge to identify new drug targets to attack acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) and other hard to treat cancers.

Dr Vervoort was one of two awardees of the $1.25 million, five-year fellowships, with Associate Professor Daniel Watterson from the University of Queensland. The fellowships were presented at the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences Annual Meeting 2021 on Wednesday 27 October.