Wayne Tilley

Prof Tilley is the Director of the Dame Roma Mitchell Cancer Research Laboratories at the University of Adelaide. His career spanning 35 years in Australia, the USA and the UK has led to international acclaim in the field of nuclear receptors and hormonal carcinogenesis. Prof Tilley’s research has an emphasis on sex hormone receptor (estrogen, progesterone and androgen receptors i.e. ER, PR, AR) function and mechanisms of resistance to hormonal treatments for breast and prostate cancer.