Sydney Cancer Partners

Sydney Cancer Partners (SCP) was formed with the support of Sydney Health Partners (SHP) in 2021 following the award of a Cancer Institute NSW (CINSW) Translational Research Capacity Building grant. The Sydney Health Partners Cancer Clinical Academic Group (CAG) forms the research translation arm of Sydney Cancer Partners.

The CAG focuses on research translation initiatives of Sydney Cancer Partners and draws on the experience of clinicians, trainees and consumers of health services to ensure fit between translational research proposed and requirements for practice change.

A focus of Sydney Cancer Partners is to engage with multi-disciplinary team (MDT) based cancer care, as a means to position translational research in the clinical care environment. A benefit of this approach is broad exposure of clinicians, who are not already involved in research, to research practice and theory, and exposure of researchers to real-life clinical practice.

Sydney Cancer Partners works closely with the University of Sydney Cancer Research Network (CRN) to foster collaboration through support and engagement with the CRN Special Interest Groups.