Brain Matters
Stories from the RCD Foundation
Brain Cancer Vaccine Project Launch
February 8, 2024
On Wednesday February 8, we were thrilled to announce we have partnered with The University of Queensland, committing $1.2 million to develop a brain cancer vaccine. With in-kind support from the...
Aussie breakthrough on a brain cancer cure
January 31, 2024
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Request for Applications CERN and Robert Connor Dawes Scientific Fellowship awarded by the National Brain Tumor Society
September 25, 2023
Download a copy BACKGROUND Immunotherapy is starting to revolutionize cancer treatment. Success with leukemia has provided hope for other cancer types. Translating this approach into brain cancer...
CERN Seed Grant Launches New $3M Ependymoma Research Project
December 21, 2022
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 laboratory at the University of...
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...
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...
Kendra Maass receives 2022 CERN Robert Connor Dawes Scientific Fellowship Award
January 26, 2022
We’re thrilled to announce the recipient of the 2022 Robert Connor Dawes Foundation CERN Fellowship – Dr Kendra Maass, scientist at the Hopp Children's Tumor Center Heidelberg (KiTZ) and German...
Ependymoma Awareness Day
May 13, 2021
MAY 10 Around the world, the month of May is widely acknowledged as Brain Cancer Awareness Month. And this year, May 10 has been recognised as the 9th Ependymoma Awareness Day, a day that is...