News | Prof Declan Murphy Principal Investigator

It is with great pleasure we announce that Declan Murphy, our Navigate Trial Principal Investigator at Peter Mac,  has been promoted to Full Professor within the Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology at the University of Melbourne, effective 1 April 2019. Declan is Director of Genitourinary Oncology (GU) at Peter Mac, and recently celebrated ten years of practice as a Consultant Urologist.  He is an internationally recognised key opinion leader in GU Oncology, in particular, prostate cancer, and has helped drive huge growth in GU clinical activity and research at Peter Mac in recent years. In addition to Declan’s terrific research achievements, he introduced robotic surgery to the public system in Victoria and has personally performed almost 2000 robotic prostatectomies to date. Declan is a wonderful clinician and researcher, role model, mentor and colleague. From the NAVIGATE project team, congratulations Declan on this thoroughly deserved recognition and achievement.