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Australian nanomedicine research a ‘milestone’ in the tr...

Our nanomedicine researchers have come up with a new approach to solving a decades-old clinical prob...

Thursday, 18th May 23

Areas: maria kavallaris, translational cancer nanomedicine, tumour biology and targeting, media release, leukaemia, publication

A new clinical trial for children with brain cancer

Our Brain Tumours team’s mission is to find safe and effective ways to treat deadly brain cancers....

Monday, 8th May 23

Brain cancer in focus: An introduction

May is Brain Cancer Awareness Month – an important opportunity to learn more about brain cancer an...

Monday, 1st May 23

Areas: brain cancer, brain cancer awareness month, childhood cancer, pediatric cancer, cancer awareness, cancer research, dipg, brain tumour, brain cancer research, cancer long term effects, childhood disease, brain cancer funding

Exciting new research boosted by Cancer Council NSW funding

Four exciting research projects are to receive significant new funding of almost $1.8 million throug...

Monday, 17th Apr 23

Areas: grant, funding, leukaemia biology, leukaemia, immunotherapy, klaartje somers, zero childhood cancer, murray norris, experimental therapeutics, molecular oncology, personalised medicine, blood cancers, molecular targets and cancer therapeutics

Australian-led study paves way to more children with cancer ...

In a world-first, our researchers have found that many more children with cancer than previously rea...

Tuesday, 4th Apr 23

Areas: media release, news, chelsea mayoh, bioinformatics, personalised medicine, precision medicine, zero childhood cancer, immunotherapy, safer treatments

Celebrating International Women's Day 2023

Join us this year in celebrating International Women's Day 2023. A day dedicated to highlighting som...

Wednesday, 8th Mar 23

Areas: international women's day, THINK, drug discovery centre, genomic childhood cancer risk, zero childhood cancer, personalised medicine

Zero Childhood Cancer precision medicine program expands to ...

The Zero Childhood Cancer Program (ZERO), Australia’s world-leading precision medicine program for...

Wednesday, 15th Feb 23

Areas: childhood cancer, medicine program, expansion, young australians, cancer, cancer research, include

Main works underway on new $658 million Sydney Children's Ho...

New designs have been unveiled for the $658 million Sydney Children’s Hospital Stage 1 and Mindero...

Friday, 10th Feb 23

New clinical trial for fatal childhood brain cancer

A new clinical trial for fatal paediatric brain cancer, Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), has...

Saturday, 4th Feb 23

Areas: DIPG, brain cancer, david ziegler, brain tumours group, molecular targets and cancer therapeutics, brain tumour, brain tumours

Research collaboration discovers how retrotransposons fuel d...

A research collaboration in the US and Australia has discovered a novel way by which highly repetiti...

Wednesday, 30th Nov 22

Areas: michelle haber, murray norris, experimental therapeutics, molecular oncology, molecular targets and cancer therapeutics, media release

Inaugural ZERO symposium brings together precision oncology ...

The inaugural Zero Childhood Cancer Program (ZERO) National Symposium brought together leading natio...

Monday, 7th Nov 22

Areas: zero childhood cancer, personalised medicine, Vanessa Tyrell, Paul Ekert, Mark Cowely, computational biology, translational tumour biology

Computational biology – harnessing data to tackle childhoo...

Take a look at the increasingly important field of computational biology within childhood cancer res...

Thursday, 27th Oct 22

Areas: computational biology, personalised medicine, mark cowley, genomics, chelsea mayoh, zero childhood cancer

A life should be long | Show your support this Childhood Can...

September is International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and we are launching our new ‘A life s...

Thursday, 1st Sep 22

Areas: a life should be long, childhood cancer, childhood cancer awareness month, fundraising, donations

Immunotherapy for kids with cancer: rapidly-evolving areas o...

In the final blog in our ‘rapidly evolving areas of research’ series, we look at the emerging ar...

Thursday, 25th Aug 22

Areas: immunotherapy, blog, paul ekert, translational tumour biology, zero childhood cancer, orazio vittorio, metal targeted therapy and immunology

Matching treatments to patients: the value of preclinical te...

In personalised medicine, the idea is to match each patient with the right treatment … but how do ...

Thursday, 18th Aug 22

Areas: blog, personalised medicine, translational tumour biology, emmy dolman, zero childhood cancer, glenn marshall, preclinical testing

Predicting cancer in children: rapidly-evolving areas of res...

In this second blog in our ‘rapidly-evolving areas of research’ series, we look at the exciting ...

Thursday, 11th Aug 22

Areas: mark pinese, genomic childhood cancer risk, genetics, personalised medicine

Epigenetics: rapidly-evolving areas of research

In the first of a series looking at rapidly-evolving areas within childhood cancer research − we l...

Thursday, 4th Aug 22

Areas: epigenetics, fatima valdes mora, fa valdes mora, cancer epigenetic biology and therapeutics, DNA, team leader, personalised medicine

Childhood cancer researcher recognised for fostering the nex...

Leading childhood cancer researcher, Professor Maria Kavallaris AM, has been named a finalist for th...

Wednesday, 27th Jul 22

Areas: maria kavallaris, translational cancer nanomedicine, tumour biology and targeting, award, media release, eureka award, executive

Genome sequencing provides new path to monitoring cancer in ...

New research led by Children's Cancer Institute suggests next generation sequencing technology may p...

Thursday, 7th Jul 22

Areas: minimal residual disease, blood cancers, michelle henderson, rosemary sutton, leukaemia, acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

$658M Sydney Children's Hospital and Minderoo Children's Com...

Construction of the $658 million Sydney Children’s Hospital Stage 1 redevelopment and Australia’...

Friday, 10th Jun 22

Areas: media release, government, cccc

Professor Michelle Haber elected to distinguished Australian...

Professor Michelle Haber AM, Executive Director of Children’s Cancer Institute and world-leading c...

Thursday, 26th May 22

Areas: michelle haber, award, media release, experimental therapeutics, molecular targets and cancer therapeutics

New treatments for brain cancer – the critical role of cli...

In our second blog during Brain Cancer Awareness month, we explain the testing that every potential ...

Tuesday, 24th May 22

Areas: brain cancer, clinical trials, brain tumours, david ziegler, maria tsoli, CBL0137, ACT001, AMXT1501, DFMO, brain cancer awareness month

A personalised approach for children with brain cancer

This Brain Cancer Awareness Month, we shine a light on how precision medicine is helping to deliver ...

Thursday, 19th May 22

Areas: brain cancer, brain cancer awareness month, zero childhood cancer, personalised medicine, precision medicine, genetics, whole genome sequencing, preclinical modelling

ACRF Launches Liquid Biopsy Program for Children with Cancer

A game-changing liquid biopsy program, the first of its kind in Australia, is set to provide clinici...

Wednesday, 11th May 22

Areas: liquid biopsy, news, media release, personalised medicine, zero childhood cancer, michelle haber, vanessa tyrell

Minderoo Children’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre to Provide...

Today the Hon. Greg Hunt MP announced a major philanthropic donation for Australia’s first Childre...

Tuesday, 12th Apr 22

Areas: media release, childrens comprehensive cancer centre, cccc, minderoo, philanthropy, zero childhood cancer, personalised medicine

$185 million investment to fast-track treatments for rare an...

Children’s Cancer Institute is to be part of a new partnership that will strengthen Australia’s ...

Thursday, 17th Mar 22

Areas: funding, government, zero childhood cancer, drug development, think, drug discovery centre, personalised medicine

Celebrating International Women's Day

This International Women’s Day we acknowledge the incredible contribution of women to Children’s...

Tuesday, 8th Mar 22

Areas: women, research, international womens day, personalised medicine, Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, molecular oncology, translational tumour biology, risk, jess henry, emmy dolman, mawar karsa

Cancer Council NSW funds exciting new research at Children's...

Funding from Cancer Council NSW will support three new research projects aimed at improving survival...

Monday, 28th Feb 22

Areas: david ziegler, richard lock, bellamy cheung, brain tumours, leukaema biology, blood cancers, molecular targets and cancer therapeutics, embryonal cancer therapy and prevention, gene regulation in cancer

Closing the care gap | World Cancer Day 2022

World Cancer Day is a global event dedicated to awareness and prevention of cancer. This year the th...

Friday, 4th Feb 22

Areas: blog, world cancer day, awareness, zero childhood cancer, worldwide, impact

Our new virtual lab tour

We are delighted to officially launch Children’s Cancer Institute’s first virtual lab tour!

Friday, 4th Feb 22

Areas: virtual tour, labs, media, news, media release, fundraising, research, Research

Improving the chances for children with high-risk cancers: n...

A world-first study led by Australian scientists and clinicians has found a way to improve the thera...

Tuesday, 21st Dec 21

Areas: zero childhood cancer, personalised medicine, glenn marshall, david ziegler, chelsea mayoh, media release, publication

A new age in children’s healthcare for Sydney

Family rooms, green outdoor spaces and treatment facilities are just some of the highlights of Austr...

Friday, 17th Dec 21

Areas: CCCC, children's comprehensive cancer centre, media release, media, government, philanthropy

Madeleine's Diary of a Researcher

This Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, we’re delighted to take you into the labs with Madeleine, r...

Wednesday, 29th Sep 21

Areas: research, childhood cancer awareness month, experimental therapeutics, neuroblastoma, Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics

‘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

Areas: childhood cancer, blood cancers, richard lock, personalised medicine, zero childhood cancer, immunology, immunooncology, acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

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

Areas: Zero Childhood Cancer, personalised medicine, minimal residual disease, leukaemia, tumour, liquid biopsy

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

Areas: leukaemia, richard lock, leukaemia biology, blood cancers, clinical trials, translational research

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

Areas: maria kavallaris, awards, award, nanomedicine, translational cancer nanomedicine, tumour biology and targeting

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

Areas: childhood cancer awareness month, leukaemia, brain cancer, neuroblastoma, sarcoma, fundraising

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

Areas: drug discovery centre, childhood cancer, THINK, Therapeutic Innovations for Kids, greg arndt

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

Areas: neuroblastoma, drug discovery centre, THINK, Therapeutic Innovations for Kids, Tao Liu, Ian Street, gene dysregulation

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

Honours scholarship applications now open

Applications are now open for Honours scholarships at Children's Cancer Institute.

Friday, 6th Aug 21

Areas: students, study, blood cancers, cancer and stem cell biology, functional genomics of leukaemia, leukaemia biology, molecular diagnostics, gene regulation in cancer, embryonal cancer therapy and prevention, gene dysregulation, molecular targets and cancer therapeutics, brain tumours, drug discovery centre, experimental therapeutics, molecular oncology, metal targeted therapy and immunology, personalised medicine, bioinformatics, computational biology, translational tumour biology, cancer epigenetic biology and therapeutics, translational cancer nanomedicine, gene therapeutics and drug delivery, tumour biology and targeting

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

Areas: emmy fleuren, sarcoma, funding, fundraising, translational tumour biology, personalised medicine

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

Areas: leukaemia, charley de bock, t-cell leukaemia, t-all, functional genomics of leukaemia, blood cancer

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

Areas: government, funding, neuroblastoma, sarcoma, leukeamia, michelle haber, murray norris, glenn marshall

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

Areas: orazio vittorio, metallomics, Metal-Targeted Therapy and Immunology, neuroblastoma, glioblastoma, brain cancer

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

Areas: Richard Lock, leukaemia biology, blood cancers, leukaemia, acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

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

Areas: michelle haber, murray norris, neuroblastoma, klaartje somers, molecular targets and cancer therapeutics, experimental therapeutics, molecular oncology

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

Areas: DIPG, David Ziegler, Brain Tumours, Brain Cancer, publication, research paper, CBL0137

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

Areas: anyaswish, sarcoma, osteosarcoma, emmy fleuren, translational tumour biology

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

Areas: neuroblastoma, glenn marshall, belamy cheung, Embryonal Cancer Therapy and Prevention, gene regulation in cancer, MYCN

Celebrating International Women's Day 2021

This International Women’s Day we are proud to celebrate the women that are part of Children’s C...

Monday, 8th Mar 21

Areas: women, international women's day, chelsea mayoh, kiri collins, aria ahmed cox

A novel therapeutic approach to MYC-driven cancer

Our research team have identified a new novel approach to treating children with high-risk MYCN-driv...

Thursday, 4th Mar 21

Areas: neuroblastoma, MYC, MYCN, belamy cheung, embryonal cancer therapy and prevention, gene regulation in cancer

Sydney researchers identify/advance potential revolutionary ...

A paper published today in the prestigious journal, Nature Communications, reveals a potential revol...

Friday, 12th Feb 21

Areas: DIPG, David Ziegler, Maria Tsoli, brain cancer, brain tumours, molecular targets and cancer therapeutics

Cancer research today: Collaboration is key

World Cancer Day reminds us that cancer is a global problem. And to tackle that problem, a global re...

Friday, 5th Feb 21

Areas: blog, global, world cancer day, worldwide, collaboration, zero childhood cancer, personalised medicine

Cancer in children – what do the global stats tell us?

World Cancer Day is a global event dedicated to awareness and prevention, and acts as a powerful rem...

Sunday, 31st Jan 21

Areas: blog, statistics, global, world cancer day, worldwide

'Outstanding' childhood cancer scientist awarded for researc...

Childhood cancer researcher and cancer survivor Dr Orazio Vittorio has been awarded ‘Outstanding C...

Thursday, 26th Nov 20

Areas: Research

Opening the black box of childhood cancer – results from a...

The success of an Australian program which aims to find the most-likely-to-succeed personalised trea...

Tuesday, 6th Oct 20

Areas: Zero Childhood Cancer, Personalised Medicine, research paper, Computational Biology

Leading childhood cancer researcher nominated for prestigiou...

Tuesday, 29th Sep 20

Areas: awards, Maria Kavallaris, Translational Cancer Nanomedicine, Tumour Biology and Targeting

Zero Childhood Cancer: How far have we come?

Thursday, 10th Sep 20

Areas: Zero childhood cancer, Personalised medicine, research

Awareness Wednesday: Discover and Translate

Saturday, 5th Sep 20

Areas: research, Zero childhood cancer, Personalised medicine, childhood cancer awareness month

Finding new treatments for those who need them most

Monday, 10th Aug 20

Areas: sarcoma, research paper, Embryonal Cancer Therapy and Prevention, Gene regulation in cancer

Blocking copper uptake in tumour cells may be clue to boosti...

Friday, 7th Aug 20

Areas: neuroblastoma, brain cancer, research, immunotherapy

Spotlight: Sarcoma in kids

With July being Sarcoma Awareness month, it’s a good opportunity to raise awareness of sarcoma, it...

Tuesday, 21st Jul 20

Areas: sarcoma, research, Translational Tumour Biology

Executive Director addresses largest cancer research meeting...

Professor Michelle Haber AM, Executive Director of Children’s Cancer Institute, today addressed th...

Thursday, 25th Jun 20

Areas: Michelle Haber, Events/conferences, Zero Childhood Cancer

Targeting stem cells: the path to curing poor-prognosis leuk...

Friday, 19th Jun 20

Areas: Blood Cancers, Cancer and Stem Cell Biology, leukaemia, research

Australia to lead world-first trial in children with brain c...

Tuesday, 9th Jun 20

Areas: research, targeted therapy, brain cancer

Nanomedicine for brain cancer – a world of possibilities

Friday, 29th May 20

Areas: Translational Cancer Nanomedicine, Gene Therapeutics and Drug Delivery, brain cancer, research

In focus: Brain cancer in kids

Tuesday, 12th May 20

Areas: brain cancer, research

Science spotlight: Minimal Residual Disease testing

Thursday, 7th May 20

Areas: Blood Cancers, Molecular Diagnostics, leukaemia, research, minimal residual disease

Diary of a Researcher

Tuesday, 5th May 20

Areas: Blood Cancers, Molecular Diagnostics, leukaemia, research, minimal residual disease

$67m funding collaboration: All Australian children with can...

ZCC Announcement

Thursday, 30th Apr 20

Areas: Personalised Medicine, Zero Childhood Cancer, government, minderoo foundation

A message from Professor Michelle Haber

Wednesday, 22nd Apr 20

Areas: Michelle Haber, fundraising

Science spotlight: Metallomics

Friday, 27th Mar 20

Areas: Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, Metal-Targeted Therapy and Immunology, research, neuroblastoma, Orazio Vittorio

An update on our life-saving research

Wednesday, 25th Mar 20

Areas: research

Children’s cancer researcher awarded NSW Premier’s Woman...

Thursday, 5th Mar 20

Areas: Translational Cancer Nanomedicine, Tumour Biology and Targeting, Angelica Merlot, awards

Research boosts progress towards personalised cancer treatme...

Wednesday, 22nd Jan 20

Areas: research, personalised medicine

'Liquid biopsy' - an exciting new test for childhood cancer

A generous grant from the ACRF will allow us to develop a revolutionary new way to diagnose cancer i...

Tuesday, 21st Jan 20

Areas: liquid biopsy, personalised medicine, tumour, zero childhood cancer

International research collaboration reveals promising drug ...

Thursday, 16th Jan 20

Areas: Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, Molecular oncology, leukaemia, research paper

Neuroblastoma research points to new possibilities in treatm...

Tuesday, 10th Dec 19

Areas: Translational Cancer Nanomedicine, Tumour Biology and Targeting, neuroblastoma, research

New therapy shows ‘dramatic’ effect against worst leukae...

Tuesday, 10th Dec 19

Areas: leukaemia targeted therapy, richard lock, leukaemia, blood cancers, leukaemia biology, research, vtp50469 mll-r

Researchers find new way to target childhood cancer

Monday, 18th Nov 19

Areas: Gene Regulation in Cancer, Gene Dysregulation, neuroblastoma, research

Our New Research Structure

Thursday, 17th Oct 19

Areas: research, history

DIPG: Shining A Light On The Deadliest Childhood Cancer

Thursday, 26th Sep 19

Areas: research, Brain cancer, DIPG

Awareness Wednesday: Immunotherapy

Thursday, 26th Sep 19

Areas: research, leukaemia, immunotherapy

Children’s Cancer Institute welcome the Governor-General a...

Governor General and Linda Hurley

Wednesday, 4th Sep 19

Areas: governor general, david hurley, media release, patrons

Our Supporters Turn Out in Record Numbers for this Year's Ci...

Monday, 12th Aug 19

Areas: events, fundraising, city2surf

New Gene Found in Neuroblastoma Offers Possibility of Target...

Wednesday, 31st Jul 19

Areas: Gene Regulation in Cancer, Gene Dysregulation, research, neuroblastoma

New gene found for a deadly childhood cancer offers possibil...

Wednesday, 31st Jul 19

Areas: Gene Regulation in Cancer, Gene Dysregulation, neuroblastoma, research

Anticancer Drug CBL0137 Highly Effective Against Infant Leuk...

Sunday, 28th Jul 19

Areas: research, leukaemia, research paper, research, Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics

Australian researchers find chink in the armour of one of th...

Sunday, 28th Jul 19

Areas: Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, leukaemia, research

Therapy Developed For Alzheimers Could Help Leukaemia Patien...

Sunday, 30th Jun 19

Areas: charley de bock, Blood Cancers, Functional Genomics of Leukaemia, reserach paper, leukaemia

New research paves the way for safer leukaemia treatments

Thursday, 30th May 19

Areas: Functional Genomics of Leukaemia, leukaemia, research

Science Spotlight: Leukaemia Stem Cells

Monday, 27th May 19

Areas: research, leukaemia, stem cells, Blood Cancers, Cancer and Stem Cell Biology

Minderoo Foundation’s $5 million donation to Zero Childhoo...

Wednesday, 15th May 19

Areas: minderoo foundation, Zero Childhood Cancer, fundraising

Endure For A Cure 2019 – The Power Of The Pedal

Thursday, 18th Apr 19

Areas: events, fundraising, endure for a cure

Childhood cancer scientist rewarded for research excellence

Monday, 1st Apr 19

Areas: awards, Maria Kavallaris, Translational Cancer Nanomedicine, Tumour Biology and Targeting

Leading children’s cancer scientist awarded for outstandin...

Friday, 15th Mar 19

Areas: awards, Murray Norris, Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, Molecular Oncology

Dr Angelica Merlot awarded 2019 NSW Young Woman of the Year

Wednesday, 13th Mar 19

Areas: awards, angelica merlot, tumour biology and targeting, Translational Cancer Nanomedicine

World-Class Children's Comprehensive Cancer Centre Announced

Friday, 1st Mar 19

Areas: government, funding, comprehensive children's cancer centre, cccc, children's comprehensive cancer centre

Meet new Team Leader, Dr Charles de Bock

Thursday, 28th Feb 19

Areas: charley de bock, leukaemia, team leader, research, Blood Cancers, Functional Genomics of Leukaemia

Our researchers combine an old drug with a new one to starve...

Monday, 18th Feb 19

Areas: neuroblastoma, research paper, clinical trial, research, Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics

Australian Scientists Discover a Potential Way to Treat and ...

Friday, 1st Feb 19

Areas: Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, neuroblastoma, research

Maria Kavallaris receives Order of Australia

Saturday, 26th Jan 19

Areas: awards, Maria Kavallaris, Translational Cancer Nanomedicine, Tumour Biology and Targeting

Fundamental mechanism behind chemotherapy resistance reveale...

Monday, 17th Dec 18

Areas: research, leukaemia, chemotherapy, Leukaemia Biology, Blood Cancers

Partnerships: Cancer Therapeutics CRC

Thursday, 13th Dec 18

Areas: research, drug discovery centre, Personalised medicine, Zero childhood cancer, partnerships

New imaging method could help treat and monitor neuroblastom...

Monday, 19th Nov 18

Areas: research, neuroblastoma, Orazio Vittorio, metallomics, Metal-Targeted Therapy & Immunology, Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics

New Drug OBI-3424 An ‘Orphan Drug’ To Treat Acute Leukae...

Monday, 19th Nov 18

Areas: leukaemia, research, Blood cancers, Leukaemia biology

How Targeting Copper Levels in Tumours Could Hold Key to One...

Monday, 19th Nov 18

Areas: Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, Metal-Targeted Therapy and Immunology, neuroblastoma, research, copper

Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

Friday, 5th Oct 18

Areas: events, fundraising, childhood cancer awareness month

Awareness Wednesday: Drug Discovery

Wednesday, 19th Sep 18

Areas: drug discovery centre, research

Awareness Wednesday: Cancer Genomics

Wednesday, 12th Sep 18

Areas: research, cancer genomics

Media Release: 'Zero Childhood Cancer' Clinical Trial Delive...

Sunday, 2nd Sep 18

Areas: Personalised Medicine, Zero Childhood Cancer, media release

Tracking cancer with gold-coated nanoparticles

Thursday, 30th Aug 18

Areas: Translational Cancer Nanomedicine, Gene Therapeutics and Drug Delivery, research paper

A little girl’s legacy: Olivia Lambert Team Leader appoint...

Wednesday, 29th Aug 18

Areas: neuroblastoma, Joshua McCarroll, olivia lambert, team leader, Translational Cancer Nanomedicine

Media Release: Prime Minister announces $5 million funding b...

Monday, 16th Jul 18

Areas: government, media release, brain cancer

A global effort to improve childhood cancer treatment

Friday, 13th Jul 18

Areas: leukaemia, research, Blood cancers, Leukaemia biology

Let’s talk about nanomedicine

Thursday, 5th Jul 18

Areas: conference, Translational Cancer Nanomedicine

Nano-stars – targeting a deadly childhood brain cancer

Wednesday, 27th Jun 18

Areas: Translational Cancer Nanomedicine, research, brain cancer

We’ve created our road map for the next five years

Wednesday, 30th May 18

Areas: history, research

Forging new alliances to tackle childhood cancer

Wednesday, 23rd May 18

Areas: neuroblastoma, research, partnerships

Neuroblastoma researchers build bridges in San Francisco

murray norris san francisco

Tuesday, 15th May 18

Areas: neuroblastoma, conference

$1 million funding boost for Zero Childhood Cancer program

Friday, 11th May 18

Areas: government, Zero Childhood Cancer, Personalised medicine

My first Mother’s Day without Byron

Friday, 11th May 18

Areas: neuroblastoma

The past, present and future for young Australians with canc...

Tuesday, 1st May 18

Areas: research, leukaemia, neuroblastoma, Zero Childhood Cancer, minimal residual disease

Dr Toby Trahair childhood cancer researcher and fundraiser w...

Thursday, 26th Apr 18

Areas: event, fundraising, toby trahair, zero childhood cancer, personalised medicine

My Daughter's Cancer Journey

Monday, 23rd Apr 18

Areas: leukaemia, families

New hope for children's brain cancer

Wednesday, 18th Apr 18

Areas: Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, Brain Tumours, brain cancer, research, DIPG

Reining In A Runaway Gene In Neuroblastoma

Friday, 6th Apr 18

Areas: neuroblastoma, research

Zero Childhood Cancer national clinical trial – 6 months o...

children running

Thursday, 22nd Mar 18

Areas: Zero childhood cancer, Personalised medicine, research

It’s in the Delivery: Researchers Find a New Way to Target...

professor maria kavallaris

Monday, 12th Mar 18

Areas: Tumour Biology and Targeting, Translational Cancer Nanomedicine, neuroblastoma, research

Sydney researchers find a way to target and kill one of the ...

Monday, 12th Mar 18

Areas: neuroblastoma, nanomedicine, research

Meet a Researcher: Q&A with Dr Marion Le Grand

marion le grande

Thursday, 15th Feb 18

Areas: neuroblastoma, Translational Cancer Nanomedicine, Tumour Biology and Targeting

Opening doors to a world of scientific exchange

student exchange ccia

Wednesday, 7th Feb 18

Areas: research, collaboration

VR helps scientists ‘walk’ through cancer cells together

scientist researchers using vr

Monday, 8th Jan 18

Areas: research, Tumour Biology and Targeting, Translational Cancer Nanomedicine

How specific DNA ‘microdeletions’ help predict leukaemia...

leukaemia micro deletion relapse

Monday, 11th Dec 17

Areas: leukaemia, research, paper, Molecular diagnostics, Blood cancers

Lexie's Christmas

Without treatment, Lexie had two weeks to live. Overnight she became ‘the kid with cancer’.

Thursday, 7th Dec 17

Areas: stage 4 neuroblastoma, stories, neuroblastoma, christmas

A very techie Christmas

We’ve already started opening our presents. Christmas has come early as new technologies take thei...

Tuesday, 28th Nov 17

Areas: technology, christmas

How do clinical trials work?

children running

Wednesday, 22nd Nov 17

Areas: research, clinical trial

Meet A Researcher: Q&A With Biljana Dumevska

researcher biljana dumevska

Wednesday, 15th Nov 17

Areas: Personalised Medicine, Zero Childhood Cancer

We made great strides with childhood leukaemia & we can do t...

brain scans strides made

Friday, 10th Nov 17

Areas: research paper, leukaemia, brain cancer, David Ziegler

Potential Leukaemia Drug Excites International Researchers

professor richard lock

Thursday, 2nd Nov 17

Areas: conference, research, leukaemia, Leukamia Biology, Blood Cancers

Fighting Fund For Brain Cancer Aims To Double Survival

brain scan images

Monday, 30th Oct 17

Areas: government, funding, brain cancer, Zero childhood cancer, Personalised medicine

Resistance is Futile: The MRP1 Story

researchers in lab

Wednesday, 18th Oct 17

Areas: neuroblastoma, leukaemia, research

How a Dad's Insights can Help Research

Wednesday, 11th Oct 17

Areas: research, families, neuroblastoma

Awareness Wednesday: the Future of Childhood Cancer Research

vigil cancer awareness

Wednesday, 27th Sep 17

Areas: Zero childhood cancer, Personalised medicine, research, immunotherapy

Awareness Wednesday: going into clinic

minister hunt with child

Wednesday, 20th Sep 17

Areas: clinical trial, research, Personalised medicine, Zero Childhood Cancer, neuroblastoma, minimal residual disease

Zero Childhood Cancer personalised medicine clinical trial l...

minister hunt with jade

Monday, 18th Sep 17

Areas: clinical trial, Zero Childhood Cancer, personalised medicine, government

Children with most aggressive cancers to benefit from Austra...

Monday, 18th Sep 17

Areas: Personalised Medicine, Zero Childhood Cancer, clinical trial, research

Awareness Wednesday: Testing our results

researcher holding flask

Wednesday, 13th Sep 17

Areas: Drug discovery centre, brain cancer, leukaemia

Awareness Wednesday: Starting with the Basics

neuroblastoma cells

Wednesday, 6th Sep 17

Areas: research, translation, Childhood Cancer Awareness month

When I grow up, I want to cure cancer

toby ash in lab

Monday, 4th Sep 17

Areas: research, sarcoma, Gene Regulation in Cancer, Embryonal Cancer Therapy and Prevention

Meet a scientist keeping drug discovery robots in line

Karessa Mercado keeps our ACRF Drug Discovery Centre, with its state-of-the-art robotics, running sm...

Wednesday, 23rd Aug 17

Areas: Drug discovery centre, Zero childhood cancer, Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics

How we’re stopping neuroblastoma’s blood supply in its t...

stopping neuroblastoma’s blood supply in its tracks

Friday, 11th Aug 17

Areas: neuroblastoma, Metal-Targeted Therapy and Immunology, Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics

Eureka! Prof Michelle Haber a finalist in Australian science...

michelle haber finalist

Friday, 28th Jul 17

Areas: Michelle Haber, awards

Sights set on an aggressive childhood leukaemia

Monday, 17th Jul 17

Areas: Blood cancers, Molecular diagnostics, leukaemia

Childhood cancers defy current understanding

cancers defy understanding

Wednesday, 21st Jun 17

Areas: research, Paediatric, neuroblastoma

Changing the future for children with brain cancer

Friday, 2nd Jun 17

Areas: brain cancer, Brain Tumours, Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, clinical trials, Zero childhood cancer, Personalised medicine

Explainer: what is nanomedicine and how can it improve child...

medulloblastoma

Wednesday, 24th May 17

Areas: Translational Cancer Nanomedicine, research

Clinical trials and Lind’s ‘acid test’

Thursday, 18th May 17

Areas: research, clinicial trial

The microbe that started a revolution

nicki and jodie

Thursday, 27th Apr 17

Areas: microbe revolution, nanomedicine, maria kavallaris, joshua mccarroll, Translational Cancer Nanomedicine

Zero Childhood Cancer update

researcher microscope

Tuesday, 18th Apr 17

Areas: Zero childhood cancer, Personalised medicine, clinical trial

How parent's insights help my research

dr orazio microscope

Tuesday, 4th Apr 17

Areas: neuroblastoma, orazio vittorio, research, Metal-Targeted Therapy and Immunology, Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics

New leukaemia subtype found by DNA test

rosemary sutton

Friday, 31st Mar 17

Areas: leukaemia, research paper, Molecular diagnostics, Blood Cancers

Facts & figures draw a picture of childhood cancer

Wednesday, 22nd Mar 17

Areas: leukaemia, brain cancer, neuroblastoma

Joining the dots to find neuroblastoma drug target

Thursday, 16th Mar 17

Areas: research, tao liu, gene regulation in cancer, gene dysregulation, neuroblastoma

Meet a Researcher: Q&A with Dr Alvin Kamili

Monday, 6th Mar 17

Areas: neuroblastoma, personalised medicine, zero childhood cancer

Neuroblastoma treatment search: polyamine puzzles and beyond

Jigsaw Puzzle Polyamine

Thursday, 23rd Feb 17

Areas: neuroblastoma, research, clinical trial

Glowing report: firefly gene shows hidden leukaemia cells

Thursday, 16th Feb 17

Areas: leukaemia, research paper, Leukaemia biology, Blood Cancers

Taking a walk inside a cancer cell

inside cancer cell

Tuesday, 14th Feb 17

Areas: research, Tumour Biology and Targeting, Translational Cancer Nanomedicine

An Aussie anti-cancer drug success story

cancer cells blood smear

Friday, 20th Jan 17

Areas: clinical trial, leukaemia, Leukaemia Biology, Blood Cancers, research

Nixon's Christmas

Nixon entered the world, tiny and adorable. But this little baby was already in the fight of his lif...

Thursday, 22nd Dec 16

Areas: baby born with cancer, stories, nixon, brain cancer, christmas

NSW to become world leader in paediatric research with Austr...

Tuesday, 13th Dec 16

Areas: paediatric, media release, government

Big data wrangling: Bioinformatics and cancer research

Monday, 12th Dec 16

Areas: Chelsea Mayoh, Bioinformatics, Personalised medicine, Zero childhood cancer

Profiler: what makes cancer cells’ metabolism different?

Monday, 5th Dec 16

Areas: neuroblastoma, research

Zero Childhood Cancer program taking shape

PM turnbull visit ccia

Friday, 11th Nov 16

Areas: zero childhood cancer, personalised medicine, research, clincical trial

We need better treatment for childhood cancer, with fewer si...

Friday, 4th Nov 16

Areas: zero childhood cancer, research, personalised medicine

$20M from Federal Government for Personalised Medicine Progr...

Thursday, 3rd Nov 16

Areas: Personalised Medicine, Zero Childhood Cancer, government, funding

Four seasons in one lab

freezer nitrogen

Tuesday, 1st Nov 16

Areas: research

Skeletons in cancer fight

cancer cells skeleton

Thursday, 27th Oct 16

Areas: Tumour biology and targeting, research

Professor Maria Kavallaris elected AAHMS Fellow

Friday, 7th Oct 16

Areas: Maria Kavallaris, awards, Translational Cancer Nanomedicine, Tumour Biology and Targeting

It’s our party: 40 years of research

40 years of research cci history

Friday, 30th Sep 16

Areas: leukaemia, history, events, fundraising

Children’s Cancer Institute celebrates 40th anniversary

Thursday, 29th Sep 16

Areas: media release, history, anniversary

Awareness Wednesday: Brain cancers

brain cancer researcher

Wednesday, 28th Sep 16

Areas: research, brain cancer, DIPG, Zero Childhood Cancer, Brain Tumours, Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics

Targeting high-risk leukaemia subtypes

leukaemia cells high risk

Tuesday, 27th Sep 16

Areas: research paper, leukaemia, Blood Cancers, Leukaemia Biology

Awareness Wednesday: Leukaemia

dr richard lock hair

Wednesday, 21st Sep 16

Areas: research, leukaemia, Blood Cancers, Leukaemia Biology

Awareness Wednesday: Neuroblastoma

eddy lab equipment

Wednesday, 14th Sep 16

Areas: research, Zero childhood cancer, neuroblastoma

Awareness Wednesday: Childhood cancer fast facts

plate with gloves

Wednesday, 7th Sep 16

Areas: leukaemia, brain cancer, neuroblastoma, childhood cancer awareness month

Robots play major role in tailoring treatment for kid's high...

Friday, 2nd Sep 16

Areas: Personalised Medicine, Zero Childhood Cancer, Australian Cancer Research Foundation, media release

Meet our researchers: Prof Maria Kavallaris

professor maria kavallaris

Sunday, 7th Aug 16

Areas: Maria Kavallaris, Tumour Biology and Targeting, Translational Cancer Nanomedicine, research

Prime Minister announces major funding commitment for Zero C...

Tuesday, 31st May 16

Areas: government, media release, brain cancer

A way to target the Achilles heel of neuroblastoma

researchers mycn cbl0137

Thursday, 5th Nov 15

Areas: research paper, neuroblastoma

Zero Childhood Cancer program aims to push survival rates to...

Wednesday, 2nd Sep 15

Areas: Personalised Medicine, Zero Childhood Cancer, media release

Deputy Director appointed AM

Monday, 8th Jun 15

Areas: Murray Norris, awards, Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, Molecular Oncology

Michelle Haber inaugural fellow AAHMS

Thursday, 26th Mar 15

Areas: Michelle Haber, awards, Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, Experimental Therapeutics

Children’s Cancer Institute and Sydney Children’s Hospit...

Tuesday, 2nd Sep 14

Areas: neuroblastoma, clinical trial

Children’s Cancer Institute’s Executive Director wins to...

Saturday, 23rd Aug 14

Areas: michelle haber, awards, Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, Experimental Therapeutics

30 years closer: Children’s Cancer Institute celebrates th...

Children's Cancer Institute - 30 Years Closer

Monday, 26th May 14

Areas: media release, history, research

Prestigious Commonwealth investment heralds a new era in chi...

Monday, 3rd Mar 14

Areas: personalised medicine, government

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Acknowledgement of Country

Children’s Cancer Institute would like to acknowledge the Gadigal and Bidigal people as the Traditional Custodians of the unceded land we work on. We pay our respects to the Elders, past, present and emerging; and recognise their cultural and spiritual relationships with the land, water and sea. It is our privilege to learn from their rich contributions to society and science as we work toward finding a cure for all children with cancer.