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Professor Lisa Horvath

Role
Laboratory Head
Lab/Group
Advanced Prostate Cancer Lab

Professor Lisa Horvath is the Director of Research and Senior Staff Specialist at the Chris O'Brien Lifehouse and Clinical Researcher heading the Advanced Prostate Cancer Group at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in The Kinghorn Cancer Centre. She is also the Professor of Medical Oncology (genitourinary cancer) at the University of Sydney and Chair of the Prostate Subcommittee of the Australian and New Zealand Urogenital and Prostate (ANZUP) clinical trials group.

Having completed medical school at the University of Sydney and trained in medical oncology at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Lisa subsequently worked at Garvan completing her PhD in translational research in 2004. She was appointed to the senior staff of Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in 2003 (moved to Chris O’Brien Lifehouse in 2013) and has concurrently led an independent research group at Garvan for 15 years as a clinician scientist. She has published >110 original research papers published in peer-reviewed journals in the last 20 years across the fields of cancer biology, biomarkers and clinical trials.

Awards

  • 2018Prize for “Best of the best plenary presentation” - Medical Oncology Group of Australia
  • 2004Medical Oncology Group of Australia / GlaxoSmithKline Travel Grant
  • 2002American Society of Clinical Oncology Merit Award
  • 2002Medical Oncology Group of Australia / GlaxoSmithKline Travel Grant
  • 2002Neupogen / Medical Oncology Group of Australia Advanced Trainee Award
  • 2000 - 2003
  • 2000 - 2003NHMRC Medical Postgraduate Research Scholarship
  • 1999Medical Oncology Group of Australia / Asta Medica Educational Travel Grant
  • 1989Grafton Elliot Smith Memorial Prize for Anatomy
  • 1989Herbert John Wilkinson Memorial Prize for Anatomy

Selected publications

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  • 2024
    Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology10.1177/17588359241307814

    Evolocumab in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: study protocol for a single-arm, phase II trial, and initial experience with use of a validated lipid biomarker to direct therapy.

    Rhiannon Mellor, Luke Ardolino, Tahlia Scheinberg, Michael Fitzpatrick, Hui-Ming Lin, Paul Bonnitcha, David Sullivan, Peter J Meikle, Martin R Stockler, Tania Moujaber, Anthony Joshua, Lisa Horvath
  • 2024
    The Lancet. Oncology10.1016/S1470-2045(24)00440-6

    Sequential [Lu]Lu-PSMA-617 and docetaxel versus docetaxel in patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (UpFrontPSMA): a multicentre, open-label, randomised, phase 2 study.

    Arun A Azad, Mathias Bressel, Hsiang Tan, Mark Voskoboynik, Aneta Suder, Andrew J Weickhardt, Alexander Guminski, Roslyn J Francis, Javad Saghebi, Nattakorn Dhiantravan, Anthony M Joshua, Louise Emmett, Lisa Horvath, Declan G Murphy, Edward Hsiao, Bavanthi Balakrishnar, Peter Lin, Andrew Redfern, William Macdonald, Siobhan Ng, Sze-Ting Lee, David A Pattison, David Nadebaum, Ian D Kirkwood, Michael S Hofman,
  • 2024
    Value in Health : The Journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research10.1016/j.jval.2024.06.019

    The Cost-Effectiveness of Germline BReast CAncer Gene Testing in Metastatic Prostate Cancer Followed by Cascade Testing of First-Degree Relatives of Mutation Carriers.

    Srinivas Teppala, Paul Scuffham, Kim Edmunds, Matthew J Roberts, David Fairbairn, David P Smith, Lisa Horvath, Haitham Tuffaha
  • 2024
    The Lancet. Oncology10.1016/S1470-2045(24)00135-9

    [Lu]Lu-PSMA-617 plus enzalutamide in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (ENZA-p): an open-label, multicentre, randomised, phase 2 trial.

    Louise Emmett, Shalini Subramaniam, Megan Crumbaker, Andrew Nguyen, Anthony M Joshua, Andrew Weickhardt, Sze-Ting Lee, Siobhan Ng, Roslyn J Francis, Jeffrey C Goh, David A Pattison, Thean Hsiang Tan, Ian D Kirkwood, Craig Gedye, Natalie K Rutherford, Shahneen Sandhu, Aravind Ravi Kumar, David Pook, Shakher Ramdave, David P Nadebaum, Mark Voskoboynik, Andrew D Redfern, William Macdonald, Laurence Krieger, Geoff Schembri, Wei Chua, Peter Lin, Lisa Horvath, Patricia Bastick, Patrick Butler, Alison Yan Zhang, Sonia Yip, Hayley Thomas, Ailsa Langford, Michael S Hofman, Margaret McJannett, Andrew James Martin, Martin R Stockler, Ian D Davis,
  • 2023
    Nature Genetics10.1038/s41588-023-01534-4

    Characterizing prostate cancer risk through multi-ancestry genome-wide discovery of 187 novel risk variants.

    Anqi Wang, Jiayi Shen, Alex A Rodriguez, Edward J Saunders, Fei Chen, Rohini Janivara, Burcu F Darst, Xin Sheng, Yili Xu, Alisha J Chou, Sara Benlloch, Tokhir Dadaev, Mark N Brook, Anna Plym, Ali Sahimi, Thomas J Hoffman, Atushi Takahashi, Koichi Matsuda, Yukihide Momozawa, Masashi Fujita, Triin Laisk, Jéssica Figuerêdo, Kenneth Muir, Shuji Ito, Xiaoxi Liu, , Yuji Uchio, Michiaki Kubo, Yoichiro Kamatani, Artitaya Lophatananon, Peggy Wan, Caroline Andrews, Adriana Lori, Parichoy P Choudhury, Johanna Schleutker, Teuvo L J Tammela, Csilla Sipeky, Anssi Auvinen, Graham G Giles, Melissa C Southey, Robert J MacInnis, Cezary Cybulski, Dominika Wokolorczyk, Jan Lubinski, Christopher T Rentsch, Kelly Cho, Benjamin H Mcmahon, David E Neal, Jenny L Donovan, Freddie C Hamdy, Richard M Martin, Borge G Nordestgaard, Sune F Nielsen, Maren Weischer, Stig E Bojesen, Andreas Røder, Hein V Stroomberg, Jyotsna Batra, Suzanne Chambers, Lisa Horvath, Judith A Clements, Wayne Tilly, Gail P Risbridger, Henrik Gronberg, Markus Aly, Robert Szulkin, Martin Eklund, Tobias Nordstrom, Nora Pashayan, Alison M Dunning, Maya Ghoussaini, Ruth C Travis, Tim J Key, Elio Riboli, Jong Y Park, Thomas A Sellers, Hui-Yi Lin, Demetrius Albanes, Stephanie Weinstein, Michael B Cook, Lorelei A Mucci, Edward Giovannucci, Sara Lindstrom, Peter Kraft, David J Hunter, Kathryn L Penney, Constance Turman, Catherine M Tangen, Phyllis J Goodman, Ian M Thompson, Robert J Hamilton, Neil E Fleshner, Antonio Finelli, Marie-Élise Parent, Janet L Stanford, Elaine A Ostrander, Stella Koutros, Laura E Beane Freeman, Meir Stampfer, Alicja Wolk, Niclas Håkansson, Gerald L Andriole, Robert N Hoover, Mitchell J Machiela, Karina Dalsgaard Sørensen, Michael Borre, William J Blot, Wei Zheng, Edward D Yeboah, James E Mensah, Yong-Jie Lu, Hong-Wei Zhang, Ninghan Feng, Xueying Mao, Yudong Wu, Shan-Chao Zhao, Zan Sun, Stephen N Thibodeau, Shannon K McDonnell, Daniel J Schaid, Catharine M L West, Gill Barnett, Christiane Maier, Thomas Schnoeller, Manuel Luedeke, Adam S Kibel, Bettina F Drake, Olivier Cussenot, Geraldine Cancel-Tassin, Florence Menegaux, Thérèse Truong, Yves Akoli Koudou, Esther M John, Eli Marie Grindedal, Lovise Maehle, Kay-Tee Khaw, Sue A Ingles, Mariana C Stern, Ana Vega, Antonio Gómez-Caamaño, Laura Fachal, Barry S Rosenstein, Sarah L Kerns, Harry Ostrer, Manuel R Teixeira, Paula Paulo, Andreia Brandão, Stephen Watya, Alexander Lubwama, Jeannette T Bensen, Ebonee N Butler, James L Mohler, Jack A Taylor, Manolis Kogevinas, Trinidad Dierssen-Sotos, Gemma Castaño-Vinyals, Lisa Cannon-Albright, Craig C Teerlink, Chad D Huff, Patrick Pilie, Yao Yu, Ryan J Bohlender, Jian Gu, Sara S Strom, Luc Multigner, Pascal Blanchet, Laurent Brureau, Radka Kaneva, Chavdar Slavov, Vanio Mitev, Robin J Leach, Hermann Brenner, Xuechen Chen, Bernd Holleczek, Ben Schöttker, Eric A Klein, Ann W Hsing, Rick A Kittles, Adam B Murphy, Christopher J Logothetis, Jeri Kim, Susan L Neuhausen, Linda Steele, Yuan Chun Ding, William B Isaacs, Barbara Nemesure, Anselm J M Hennis, John Carpten, Hardev Pandha, Agnieszka Michael, Kim De Ruyck, Gert De Meerleer, Piet Ost, Jianfeng Xu, Azad Razack, Jasmine Lim, Soo-Hwang Teo, Lisa F Newcomb, Daniel W Lin, Jay H Fowke, Christine M Neslund-Dudas, Benjamin A Rybicki, Marija Gamulin, Davor Lessel, Tomislav Kulis, Nawaid Usmani, Aswin Abraham, Sandeep Singhal, Matthew Parliament, Frank Claessens, Steven Joniau, Thomas Van den Broeck, Manuela Gago-Dominguez, Jose Esteban Castelao, Maria Elena Martinez, Samantha Larkin, Paul A Townsend, Claire Aukim-Hastie, William S Bush, Melinda C Aldrich, Dana C Crawford, Shiv Srivastava, Jennifer Cullen, Gyorgy Petrovics, Graham Casey, Ying Wang, Yao Tettey, Joseph Lachance, Wei Tang, Richard B Biritwum, Andrew A Adjei, Evelyn Tay, Ann Truelove, Shelley Niwa, Kosj Yamoah, Koveela Govindasami, Anand P Chokkalingam, Jacob M Keaton, Jacklyn N Hellwege, Peter E Clark, Mohamed Jalloh, Serigne M Gueye, Lamine Niang, Olufemi Ogunbiyi, Olayiwola Shittu, Olukemi Amodu, Akindele O Adebiyi, Oseremen I Aisuodionoe-Shadrach, Hafees O Ajibola, Mustapha A Jamda, Olabode P Oluwole, Maxwell Nwegbu, Ben Adusei, Sunny Mante, Afua Darkwa-Abrahams, Halimatou Diop, Susan M Gundell, Monique J Roobol, Guido Jenster, Ron H N van Schaik, Jennifer J Hu, Maureen Sanderson, Linda Kachuri, Rohit Varma, Roberta McKean-Cowdin, Mina Torres, Michael H Preuss, Ruth J F Loos, Matthew Zawistowski, Sebastian Zöllner, Zeyun Lu, Stephen K Van Den Eeden, Douglas F Easton, Stefan Ambs, Todd L Edwards, Reedik Mägi, Timothy R Rebbeck, Lars Fritsche, Stephen J Chanock, Sonja I Berndt, Fredrik Wiklund, Hidewaki Nakagawa, John S Witte, J Michael Gaziano, Amy C Justice, Nick Mancuso, Chikashi Terao, Rosalind A Eeles, Zsofia Kote-Jarai, Ravi K Madduri, David V Conti, Christopher A Haiman
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