Professor H. Miles Prince
- Professor H. Miles Prince AM
- 2023
- MBBS (Hons) MD FRACP FRCPA AFRCMA AFRACD FAHMS
Professor Miles Prince is an internationally recognised Australian haematologist and Professor of Medicine at both Melbourne and Monash Universities. He is the Director of Cancer Immunology and Molecular Oncology at Epworth Healthcare and a Haematologist at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.
He is a very active clinician, also overseeing clinical and laboratory research – the latter involving stem cell research and cancer immunology. He has been involved in numerous clinical trials of new therapies for blood cancers and has been the Principal Investigator of over 100 clinical trials involving myeloma, lymphoma, leukemia, transplantation and supportive care. He has published over 500 peer-reviewed manuscripts.
He is the Chief Investigator for an NH&MRC Program Grant in Cancer Immunology, Victorian Cancer Agency translational grants in Epigenetics, Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance and holds large US and European research grants.
He is one of the establishing members of the Snowdome Foundation which focuses on “Harnessing the Immune System for Curing Blood Cancers; a ‘climate change’ moment”
He is a member of the Australian Blood Cancer Taskforce which has just developed Australia’s first national Strategic Action Plan for Blood Cancer.
He is a Fellow of the Academy of Health & Medical Sciences and in 2014 Miles was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for distinguished services to medicine particularly in the areas of blood cancer research, patient care and philanthropy leadership.