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2008 Grant Recipient is Dr Anthony Cesare, He will be researching out of The Children's Medical Research Institute.

His studies will focus on the pevention of cancer cell growth by restoring normal chromosome capping function (understanding the genetics of cancer).

Human cells possess linear chromosomes whose ends are 'capped' by physical structures termed "telomeres". We believe that by understanding the nature of telomere dysfunction in tumours we will gain valuable insight into basic telomere function in healthy cells, specifically how normal human cells regulate homologous recombination at their chromosome ends.

To read about all the 2008 Cure Cancer Australia Research Grant Recipients click here - http://www.cure.org.au/Content.asp?z=3&c=470&p=1023