Best of Oral Abstracts Awards
GI Cancer Trials recognises outstanding oral abstract presentations by providing the Best of Oral Abstracts Awards at each ASM. The awards offer opportunities for peers to acknowledge exceptional contributions to the group and its meeting. Up to three abstracts may be chosen for oral presentations with a chance to win Best of Oral Abstracts Awards. The final decision on abstracts for oral presentations will be made by the ASM Executive Committee.
For any enquiries, please contact GI Cancer Trials.
Assessment criteria
The presentations will be judged on the following criteria:
- Quality of presentation (fluency & clarity)
- Audience engagement
- Use of allocated presentation time
- Confidence in handling questions & quality of answers provided (during Q&A)
- Topic is aligned to the ASM theme
Past recipients
2025 recipients
2025 winner: Professor Tim Price
Best of Oral Abstracts – Winner
Australian patients with IDH1 mutated cholangiocarcinoma treated with ivosidenib: initial results from the phase 3b ProvIDHe study – Professor Tim Price
Best of Oral Abstracts – Runners up
Proteomics-Driven Risk Stratification in Stage III Colon Cancer: A Validated Prognostic Signature for Recurrence Prediction using three independent cohorts – Dr Adel Aref
Compliance and Toxicity of Total Neoadjuvant Therapy in Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis – Dr Warren Seow
A Seedpod of Yarns: Indigenous-Led Yarning as a Transformative Approach in Translational GI Cancer Research and Practice – Dr Madison Shakespeare
2024 recipients
Best of Posters – Winner
Investigation of the effect of the gut microbiome on tumour response to anti-cancer treatment in patients diagnosed with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma – Dr Olivia Comito
Best of Posters – Runner up
Exploring the immune microenvironment of anal squamous cell carcinoma using OPAL multispectral mutiplex immunohistochemistry and NanostringTM transcriptomic profiling– Dr Wei Mou Lim
2023 recipients
Best of Posters – Winner
Investigating Peripheral CD8+ T cell Tolerance in Colorectal Cancer – Dr Avraham Travers
Best of Posters – Runner up
GPX2 loss sensitises colorectal cancers to radiotherapy and chemotherapy – Dr Natalia Vukelic
The 2023 Best of Posters Award was proudly supported by Amgen.
2022 recipients
Best of Posters – Winner
Local and systemic Programmed Death-1 (PD-1) pathway activity predicts complete response to chemoradiotherapy in locally advanced rectal cancer – Dr Melanie McCoy
Fast Forward – Winner
BIL-PPP: Combination PD1 and PARP inhibitor as maintenance treatment following platinum-gemcitabine for unresectable locally-advanced or metastatic biliary tract cancers – Dr Rachel Purcell
2021 recipients
Best of Posters – Winner
Long term survival and toxicity in patients with progressive advanced neuroendocrine tumours treated with Lutetium-177-Octreotate Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy: A Western Australian long term follow-up study – Dr Kim Kennedy
Best of Posters – Runner up
Real-world characteristics and outcomes of potentially resectable oligometastatic colorectal cancer – Dr Andrew Parsonson
The 2021 Best of Posters Award was proudly supported by Servier.
2020 recipient
Best of Posters – Winner
Adjuvant chemotherapy in elderly patients with stage III colorectal cancer – Dr Oliver Piercey
2019 recipients
Best of Posters – Winner
Palliative Oesophageal Chemoradiotherapy: A Phase I Clinical Trial – Dr Swetha Sridharan
Fast Forward – Winner
The effect of oversewing double stapled anastomoses in oncological colorectal surgery – Dr Simon Wilkins
The 2018 Best of Posters Award was proudly supported by GenesisCare.
2018 recipients
Best of Posters – Winner
Pancreatic Cancer: An analysis of 'Real-World' stent-related morbidity in the palliative setting – Dr Belinda Lee
Fast Forward – Winner
Biomarker testing and biomarker-directed treatment utilisation for metastatic colorectal cancer in Australian practice – Dr Hui-Li Wong
The 2017 Best of Posters Award was proudly supported by Clinical Genomics.
2017 recipients
2017 Best of Posters winner: Dr Jennifer Mooi
2017 Fast Forward winner: Dr Melanie McCoy
Best of Posters – Winner
Exploring Consensus Molecular Subtypes (CMS) as predictors of benefit from bevacizumab in first line treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer: retrospective analysis of the MAX clinical trial – Dr Jennifer Mooi
Best of Posters – Runner Up
The potential of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) to guide adjuvant chemotherapy decision making in locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) – Dr Margaret Lee
Fast Forward – Winner
The Cancer Stem-Like Cell Marker SOX2 is Prognostic and May Predict Response to Chemotherapy in Colon Cancer – Dr Melanie McCoy
The 2017 Best of Posters Award was proudly supported by Ipsen.
2016 recipients
Best of Posters – Winner
Mismatch repair deficiency, inflammatory score and prognosis in gastric cancer – Sharon Pattison
Best of Posters – Runner up
Immune biomarkers of response to chemoradiotherapy in locally advanced rectal cancer – Dr Melanie McCoy
The 2016 Best of Posters Award was proudly supported by Ipsen.
2015 recipient
Best of Posters – Winner
Survival impact of adjuvant chemotherapy for resected early stage rectal adenocarcinoma – Dr Rebecca Tay
The 2015 Best of Posters Award was proudly supported by Ipsen.
2014 recipient
Best of Posters – Winner
A prospective, single institution study of the impact of Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron Emission Tomograpthy with concurrent non-contract CT scanning (PET/CT) on the management of operable Pancreatic, Ampullary or Distal Bile Duct cancer – Dr Matthew Burge
The 2014 Best of Posters Award was proudly supported by Ipsen.