Brain Matters
Stories from the RCD Foundation
Coles BrainHeart: $419,000 raised for kids with brain cancer
October 14, 2022
We had the great honour of accepting a massive $419,431 cheque from Coles, raised last month during the BrainHeart Campaign. The campaign ran in all 220 Victorian Coles stores, and online from...
Childhood Brain Cancer Awareness Day: High Grade Glioma (HGG)
September 22, 2022
September 26 is Brain Cancer Awareness Day. This year the focus is on high grade glioma (HGG). High-grade gliomas (HGGs) are the most malignant type of CNS tumours that occur in children....
HGG PROJECTS WE ARE FUNDING
September 21, 2022
September 26 is Brain Cancer Awareness Day. This year the focus is on high grade glioma (HGG). We have highlighted all of the projects we have committed funding to relating to research in HGG....
Childhood Brain Cancer Awareness Day Spotlight: Zoe Stanley
September 21, 2022
Monday, 26 September is the fourth annual Childhood Brain Cancer Awareness Day. Each year a different tumour type is highlighted, this year is high grade glioma (HGG). Our beautiful Legacy...
Connor's Run Melbourne - What a day!
September 15, 2022
After a two-year hiatus, our one-day Connor's Run Melbourne event was finally back. And you, our big-hearted supporters, definitely brought the FUN, while Connor and our other brain cancer angels,...
Connor's Parma at Marine Hotel
September 5, 2022
A huge thank you to Collingwood players, Brayden Maynard and Nathan Murphy for getting behind Connor’s Parma! $5 from every parma sold at the Marine Hotel Brighton in September will be donated to...
CERN x RCD Seed Grant Launches New $3M Ependymoma Research Project
August 25, 2022
This first appeared on CERN. Discoveries from the 2020 CERN Robert Connor Dawes Pediatric Fellowship, supported by the National Brain Tumor Society, to Dr. Chan Chung in Dr. Sriram Venneti’s...
New clinical trial now open for children with deadly brain cancers.
August 24, 2022
This was first posted on ANZCHOG An international clinical trial testing the latest promising drugs for children diagnosed with a deadly brain cancer is now open in Australia and will open soon in...
RCD Wrap Up: EpCam
July 27, 2022
In June, the Cancer Research UK Children's Brain Tumour Centre of Excellence (CRUK-CBTCE) hosted an international ependymoma meeting in Cambridge, sponsored exclusively by the RCD Foundation, and...
Kicking Goals for Brain Cancer 2022
July 25, 2022
What a weekend! Our Kicking Goals for Brain Cancer Round was a huge success! A big-hearted thanks to everyone who supported the round. We had lots of teams purchase our awesome...