Brain Matters
Stories from the RCD Foundation
Hayley & Pippa's brain matters
September 8, 2015
In what has quickly become one of our proudest stories, Hayley White and Virginia Rea joined Liz to donate $20 000 to the Royal Children’s Hospital, in honour of Pippa Rea. This donation was...
Roadtrip USA: Visiting top researchers
February 26, 2015
This was far from your average road trip. Liz and Celia, were joined by Debbie Clark, Connor's aunt & RCD Fund USA's research liaison and Director of the Brain Cancer Discovery...
PHD Scholarship: Another brain on the job
February 26, 2015
It is with tremendous pride that we congratulate Richa Kohli on becoming the first recipient of the Robert Connor Dawes PhD Scholarship! Richa will be working with Prof. Terry Johns and the newly...
Joining forces with the CCIA
January 7, 2015
This was original posted in a press release by the CCIA Children’s Cancer Institute and the Robert Connor Dawes Fund join forces for better brain tumour treatments Children’s Cancer Institute is...
Queensland Reconnaissance: Expanding the Collaborative
November 24, 2014
Hope. It is just as important to us as Research, Care, and Development. Hope that we can recover, prevent, and cure. Hope seeded in the groundbreaking research being done in Australia and around the...
Key Donation in Memory of Campbell Hoyt
November 20, 2014
The Robert Connor Dawes Fund is pleased to announce that it will be supporting paediatric ependymoma research at the Weill Cornell Medical Centre in New York. This donation will be made in memory of...
KEY NY CLINICAL TRIALS
October 28, 2014
RCD US has announced that it will be assisting with key ependymoma research coming out of New York. The Weill Cornell Medical Centre is currently working on ‘personalised clinical trials’ for each...
PERSONALISED MEDICINE: THE FUTURE OF CHILDHOOD CANCER TREATMENT
October 28, 2014
We have proudly contributed to the forefront of childhood cancer research and treatment. Personalised medicine is a new way to treat patients, tailored to their individual genetic make-up. We jumped...
ISPNO: International Symposium on Pediatric Neuro Oncology
July 29, 2014
From Celia Williams, Research Liaison. My three days in Singapore listening to researchers and doctors explain the latest discoveries and potential treatments for paediatric brain tumours...
PhD Scholarship: Another brain on the job
December 6, 2013
We were very pleased Prof Terry Johns was able to attend and accept $25 000 that will go towards a PhD pediatric brain tumour researcher. As our most significant contribution to the battle against...