Runner up Best Oral Abstract in the highly competitive AGITG Best of the Best competition.

Dr Madison Shakespeare, an Australian First Nations multidisciplinary researcher, was awarded Runner-Up (Second Place) for Best Oral Abstract in the highly competitive AGITG Best of the Best competition.
Selected from 88 submissions, she was one of four finalists invited to present her research live to a panel of internationally esteemed professors of cancer research and clinical practice, and to the entire conference, on Thursday, 27 November 2025, at the Adelaide Convention Centre. Her presentation was titled “A Seedpod of Yarning: Indigenous-Led Yarning as a Transformative Approach in Translational GI Cancer Research and Practice.”