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‘Moving the dial’ on treatment for childhood cancer
For Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, let’s take a look at where things are moving to in the treat...
Friday, 24th Sep 21
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New DNA-based test on the horizon for children with solid tu...
Research has revealed that the new technology of whole-genome sequencing can be used to identify tum...
Monday, 13th Sep 21
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Fast-tracking new treatments into clinical trials for childr...
Our researchers have been awarded more than AUD$3 million by the USA’s National Cancer Institute t...
Monday, 6th Sep 21
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Professor Maria Kavallaris nominated for prestigious science...
Professor Maria Kavallaris AM, a leading childhood cancer researcher, was today named a finalist for...
Thursday, 2nd Sep 21
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Join us this Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
September marks International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, a month when we honour all children ...
Tuesday, 31st Aug 21
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Drug discovery in Australia strengthened by expanded access ...
The Australian Lead Identification Consortium today announced the completion of the purpose-built Au...
Monday, 30th Aug 21
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Oncology One announces new drug discovery project with Child...
A new partnership with Australian biotech company, Oncology One Pty Ltd, announced today, will focus...
Thursday, 26th Aug 21
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Improving the outlook for babies with leukaemia
Babies diagnosed with leukaemia have poorer outcomes than older children. What are their treatment o...
Friday, 20th Aug 21
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Honours scholarship applications now open
Applications are now open for Honours scholarships at Children's Cancer Institute.
Friday, 6th Aug 21
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Community funding to help kids with sarcoma
New community-generated funding will allow us to ramp up our research into sarcoma, an aggressive ca...
Wednesday, 28th Jul 21
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Understanding high-risk leukaemia and how to treat it
To improve survival, we are improving our understanding of aggressive and difficult to treat leukaem...
Wednesday, 7th Jul 21
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Funding boost improves outlook for children with cancer
A major funding boost from the Australian Government’s Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) will su...
Thursday, 1st Jul 21
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In focus: Dr Orazio Vittorio
Meet Dr Orazio Vittorio, Team Leader of the Metal-Targeted Therapy and Immunology Group at Children'...
Monday, 7th Jun 21
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New drug combination found to be effective against high-risk...
Our researchers have found what could prove to be a new and effective way to treat a form of high-ri...
Friday, 28th May 21
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Multimodal therapy may hold key to treating aggressive child...
Research by our scientists has found a combination of therapies that appears to be highly effective ...
Monday, 17th May 21
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Australian researchers find new way to target deadly childho...
Research led by scientists at Children’s Cancer Institute offers an exciting new therapeutic appro...
Wednesday, 14th Apr 21
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Anya’s Wish: finding new treatments for osteosarcoma
Anya’s Wish is a new research project established at Children’s Cancer Institute in memory of An...
Friday, 9th Apr 21
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World-first discovery paves way to new cancer treatment
Our research team have made a world-first discovery that a cellular protein called ALYREF plays a cr...
Friday, 26th Mar 21
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