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Email

rramsay@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
The Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology
Education
Bachelors Degree
La Trobe University
PhD
The University of Queensland
ORCID

0000-0001-5003-0433

Prof Rob Ramsay

Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
The Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology

248 Scholarly works
16 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    Role of Neoadjuvant Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer: A Systematic Review of Currently Available Studies
    DOI: 10.1097/DCR.0000000000003927
  • 2025

    Journal article

    The Ave–Rec Trial: Phase II Trial of PDL1/PD1 Blockade with Avelumab after Chemoradiotherapy for Locally Advanced Resectable T3B-4/N1-2 Rectal Cancer
    DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-25-0705
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Discovery of WEE1 Kinase Inhibitors with Potent Activity against Patient-Derived, Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Organoids
    DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.4c02541
  • 2025

    Journal article

    A non-randomised open-label exploratory ‘window of opportunity’ study of TG02 treatment in patients with locally advanced primary and recurrent RAS mutant colorectal cancer
    DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e41364
  • 2019

    Research Grant

    From the Stone Age to the State of the Art – Multidimensional Precision Medicine for Peritoneal CRC
  • 2018

    Research Grant

    Testing a New Anti-Cancer Vaccine as a Therapy for Brain Cancer
  • 2018

    Research Grant

    Mechanisms of Resistance to Immunological Targeting of Primary and Metastatic Colorectal Cancers
Rob Ramsay

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2009
Rothschild-Yvette Mayent-Institut Curie Award (2009) Curie Institute, Paris France
2001
6th World Congress on Advances in Oncology and 4th International Symposium on Molecular Medicine, Crete, Greece. Outstanding achievement

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2024

    Journal article

    Targeting alternative classes of tumor antigens to improve immunotherapy for microsatellite stable, mismatch repair-proficient colorectal cancer
    DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.AM2024-4095
  • 2024

    Journal article

    CREB: A multifaceted transcriptional regulator of neural and immune function in CNS tumors
    DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2023.12.002
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Impact of neoadjuvant systemic chemotherapy followed by cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy for appendiceal adenocarcinoma
    DOI: 10.1111/ajco.13949
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Use of patient-derived explants as a preclinical model for precision medicine in colorectal cancer: A scoping review
    DOI: 10.1007/s00423-023-03133-7
  • 2023

    Conference Proceedings

    The ave-rec phase II trial of PD-L1/PD-1 blockade with avelumab plus chemoradiotherapy for resectable ESMO high risk rectal cancers
    DOI: 10.1016/j.annonc.2023.09.1824
  • 2023

    Journal article

    ASO Author Reflections: Humidification of Carbon Dioxide for Insufflation Offers Promise in Reducing Inflammation and Peritoneal Trauma During and Post Colorectal Cancer Surgery
    DOI: 10.1245/s10434-022-13014-w

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2024

    Research grants (other domestic)

    "The PREDICTORG Trial: PeRsonalisED Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy for Patients With resecTable Colorectal Peritoneal Metastases: An All-Australian Multicentre Trial Utilising Patient-Derived Tumour ORGanoids to Facilitate Precision Medicine."
  • 2020

    Research grants (other domestic)

    Novel Neo-Adjuvant Therapy for Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer

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