Brain Matters
Stories from the RCD Foundation
Liz's Christmas Message
December 21, 2022
A Very Merry Christmas from all of us at the Robert Connor Dawes Foundation! In 2022 we celebrated our 10th year investing in impactful projects and bringing our paediatric brain cancer...
Sandringham Little Aths Community Day
November 14, 2022
We enjoyed Community Day at Sandringham Little Athletics on Saturday. It was great to have our major partner Coles and their ambassador, 2 x World Champion and Olympic Bronze medalist, Kelsey-Lee...
2023 Noosa Tri
October 31, 2022
What a weekend! Thank you to the 25+ Team RCD athletes used their brawn for the brain participating in the Noosa Triathlon. The participants raised over $30,000 for paediatric brain cancer...
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...