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...

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EpCam 2023 Meeting Overview

August 14, 2023

The second Ependymoma Science Meeting, EPCam was held in June 2023, in Cambridge, UK. We were proud to support this event along with Texas Children’s Hospital and Cancer Research UK. Overall 23...

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10 Years of Impact Film

June 7, 2023

The Robert Connor Dawes (RCD) Foundation are celebrating 10 years of impact our Foundation has made in the areas of research, care and development. Your awesome supports means we are able to fund...

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Curing childhood cancer: all roads lead to Melbourne

April 5, 2023

  The original news article can be found on Hudson's website HERE A single laboratory in south-east Melbourne is now the global hub for medical researchers looking to cure childhood...

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Children's brain cancer biobank gives hope for the future

February 15, 2023

The Robert Connor Dawes Foundation are proud to announce that we are co-funding South Australia's first biobank. Dubbed ‘Brain Turbo SA’, the biobank is being spearheaded by renowned brain...

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World First: Australian child first in the world to trial new brain cancer treatment

February 8, 2023

16 year old Adam is the first patient in the world to trial a new brain cancer treatment. This world-first cancer treatment trial, tackling a rare and debilitating paediatric brain tumour commenced at...

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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...

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An Australian first: Newly accredited diagnostic test to transform diagnosis of children with brain cancer.

December 13, 2022

Pat yourself on the back, high-five someone, jump for joy, because your awesome support has helped make a huge difference for young people with brain cancer! From December 2022, molecular profiling...

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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....

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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...

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