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The TRACKER team featured at the AIRWAYS 2025 Conference in Melbourne, contributing to important discussions on lung health. The event provided a valuable platform to share insights, explore innovations in early detection, and highlight the role of collaborative approaches in advancing respiratory care.

Yesterday in Melbourne, the TRACKER team had the privilege of attending the Lung Foundation Australia Board Meeting. A particularly moving moment came when TRACKER updated the Morris family on the impact of the Cassy Morris Lung Cancer Innovation Grant — an award created to honour Cassy’s legacy and advance lung cancer research.

South Australia has officially joined the TRACKER biobank, with the Royal Adelaide Hospital and SAiGENCI at the University of Adelaide now actively collecting and processing patient samples!

We are proud to announce that Lisa Briggs, Chair of the TRACKER Biobank Consumer Committee, has been awarded the prestigious 2025 Jeannie Ferris Award at Parliament House. This honour recognises Lisa’s exceptional leadership, advocacy, and dedication to ensuring consumer voices remain central to lung cancer research.

At the TOGA 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting in Brisbane, Dr Shivakumar took to the stage to share early insights from his PhD research - a fascinating exploration of how the lung microbiome might influence the risk of CIP in lung cancer patients.

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Yeo, PhD candidate and respiratory specialist, on her first first-author publication, and to the TRACKER team on achieving our very first peer-reviewed paper, now published in the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA).

Dr Tracy Leong has been honoured with the prestigious Women of Influence Award from Lung Foundation Australia!