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Cooper Rice-Brading Foundation funding to benefit sarcoma re...

Young Australians fighting sarcoma, an aggressive tumour that mainly affects children, teenagers, an...
Thursday, 15th Feb 24
Areas: sarcoma, emmy fleuren, sarcoma biology and ther...
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Precision medicine now available to all children with cancer...

A landmark moment in the treatment of children with cancer was reached in November, with the Zero Ch...
Wednesday, 20th Dec 23
Areas: zero childhood cancer, precision medicine, zero...
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NHMRC grants reward researchers with bright ideas

Four groundbreaking research projects at Children’s Cancer Institute have been awarded ‘2023 Ide...
Monday, 18th Dec 23
Areas: funding, grant, leukaemia, acute lymphoblastic ...
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Professor Maria Kavallaris awarded the Walter Burfitt Prize

Leading researcher, Professor Maria Kavallaris AM, has been awarded the prestigious Royal Society of...
Thursday, 30th Nov 23
Areas: maria kavallaris, translational cancer nanomedi...
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Professor Michelle Haber honoured by The CEO Magazine at gal...

Professor Michelle Haber has been honoured for her outstanding contribution to childhood cancer rese...
Friday, 17th Nov 23
Areas: michelle haber, award, director, board, media r...
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New funding announced for cutting-edge cancer research

Children’s Cancer Institute has been announced as the recipient of a $2 million grant from the Aus...
Thursday, 16th Nov 23
Areas: funding, immunotherapy, immunology, paul ekert,...
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Professor Michelle Haber awarded 2023 Sidney Sax medal

The AHHA today announced it will award the 2023 Sidney Sax medal for outstanding contributions to th...
Thursday, 26th Oct 23
Areas: michelle haber, zero childhood cancer, experime...
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New $15m frontier technology centre to develop next-generati...

The Australian Centre for Targeted Therapeutics (ACTT) has been awarded $15 million from the MRFF to...
Friday, 13th Oct 23
Areas: media release, michelle haber, collaboration, d...
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The bittersweet story of childhood leukaemia

In our second blog for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, we look at the two sides of childhood leuka...
Friday, 15th Sep 23
Areas: childhood cancer, cancer awareness, leukaemia, ...
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Best in class: Good Design Award Accolade goes to data analy...

A new digital platform developed for the Zero Childhood Cancer Program (ZERO)—Australia’s world-...
Monday, 11th Sep 23
Areas: award, computational biology, zero childhood ca...
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Professor David Ziegler awarded prestigious scientific award

Leading childhood cancer researcher and paediatric oncologist Professor David Ziegler will receive t...
Wednesday, 6th Sep 23
Areas: news, david ziegler, award, brain tumour, brain...
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Join us this Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, a time when we honour all children with cancer – pa...
Friday, 1st Sep 23
Areas: childhood cancer, childhood cancer awareness, c...
News

Statement – Pareto Phone Data breach

On 8 August 2023 we were informed that Children’s Cancer Institute and numerous other charities ac...
Tuesday, 29th Aug 23
Areas: data, news release, communications

Human Genome Project: 20 years later

It's now 20 years since The Human Genome Project officially ended. Heralded as “one of the greates...
Monday, 14th Aug 23
Areas: sydney, cancer, genome, human genome project, g...
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Screening genes for the right treatment: new hope for childr...

Our researchers have found that they can improve the chances of finding the right drug to kill their...
Wednesday, 2nd Aug 23
Areas: zero childhood cancer, personalised medicine, p...
News

New Deputy Directors appointed at Children’s Cancer Instit...

Children’s Cancer institute is pleased to announce the appointment of two new Deputy Directors: As...
Friday, 28th Jul 23
Areas: deputy directors, leadership, mark cowley, paul...
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National clinical trial ecosystem will enable more treatment...

Clinical trial and drug access for Australian adults and children with cancer will be improved by Pr...
Thursday, 27th Jul 23
Areas: precision medicine, personalised medicine, zero...
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Surviving sarcoma: Ashleigh’s story

What’s it like to have cancer as a child? In our third blog for Sarcoma Awareness Month, we share ...
Friday, 21st Jul 23
Areas: sydney, sarcoma, cancer, rhabdomyosarcoma, sa...
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Anya’s Wish – Sarcoma research to make a difference

In our second Sarcoma Awareness month blog, we talk to researcher Zara Barger about a unique and ver...
Friday, 14th Jul 23
Areas:
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Immunotherapy for children with sarcoma

July is Sarcoma Awareness month – a time for learning more about sarcoma and its impact. In this b...
Monday, 10th Jul 23
Areas: sydney, sarcoma, cancer, awareness, osteosarcom...
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ZERO enrols 1000th child – a milestone in Australia’s me...

A milestone in Australia’s medical history was reached this week with the enrolment of the 1000th ...
Monday, 3rd Jul 23
Areas: zero childhood cancer, precision medicine, pers...

Day in the life: brain cancer researcher

Today marks the final day of brain cancer awareness month, a month dedicated to bringing awareness t...
Wednesday, 31st May 23
Areas: brain cancer, childhood cancer, cancer, cancer ...
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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 nanomedi...
Blog

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
Areas:
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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, chi...
Blog

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, i...
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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, bioinformat...
Blog

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 discover...
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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, ...
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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
Areas:
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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 tumour...
News

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 the...
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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, V...
Blog

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, m...
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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, childh...
Blog

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 ...
Blog

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 tumo...
Blog

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, gen...
Blog

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...
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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 nanomedi...
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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, michel...
News

$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
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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, experimen...
Blog

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, d...
Blog

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, zer...
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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, personalise...
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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 c...
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$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, dru...
Blog

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, pers...
News

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, br...
Blog

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 childho...
Featured News

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,...
Featured News

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, g...
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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, m...
Blog

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, exp...
Blog

‘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, ...
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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
Areas: Zero Childhood Cancer, personalised medicine, m...
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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
Areas: leukaemia, richard lock, leukaemia biology, blo...
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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
Areas: maria kavallaris, awards, award, nanomedicine, ...
Blog

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, br...
Featured News

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,...
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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
Areas: neuroblastoma, drug discovery centre, THINK, Th...
Blog

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
Areas:
Blog

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...
Blog

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, tr...
Blog

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...
News

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, le...
Blog

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 Th...
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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
Areas: Richard Lock, leukaemia biology, blood cancers,...
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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
Areas: michelle haber, murray norris, neuroblastoma, k...
Featured News

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 Cance...
Blog

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,...
Featured News

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, E...
Blog

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...
Blog

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, embryo...
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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,...
Blog

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, coll...
Blog

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, wor...
News

'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
News

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, r...
News

Leading childhood cancer researcher nominated for prestigiou...

Tuesday, 29th Sep 20
Areas: awards, Maria Kavallaris, Translational Cancer ...
News

Zero Childhood Cancer: How far have we come?

Thursday, 10th Sep 20
Areas: Zero childhood cancer, Personalised medicine, r...
News

Awareness Wednesday: Discover and Translate

Saturday, 5th Sep 20
Areas: research, Zero childhood cancer, Personalised m...
Blog

Finding new treatments for those who need them most

Monday, 10th Aug 20
Areas: sarcoma, research paper, Embryonal Cancer Thera...
News

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

Friday, 7th Aug 20
Areas: neuroblastoma, brain cancer, research, immunoth...
Blog

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 Childh...
News

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

jenny banner
Friday, 19th Jun 20
Areas: Blood Cancers, Cancer and Stem Cell Biology, le...
News

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

david ziegler
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 Therape...

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...

Diary of a Researcher

Tuesday, 5th May 20
Areas: Blood Cancers, Molecular Diagnostics, leukaemia...
News

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

ZCC Announcement
Thursday, 30th Apr 20
Areas: Personalised Medicine, Zero Childhood Cancer, g...

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, Meta...
News

An update on our life-saving research

Wednesday, 25th Mar 20
Areas: research
News

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

maria gladys
Thursday, 5th Mar 20
Areas: Translational Cancer Nanomedicine, Tumour Biolo...
Blog

Research boosts progress towards personalised cancer treatme...

Wednesday, 22nd Jan 20
Areas: research, personalised medicine
Blog

'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, z...
News

International research collaboration reveals promising drug ...

Thursday, 16th Jan 20
Areas: Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, Mole...
Blog

Neuroblastoma research points to new possibilities in treatm...

Tuesday, 10th Dec 19
Areas: Translational Cancer Nanomedicine, Tumour Biolo...
News

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

Tuesday, 10th Dec 19
Areas: leukaemia targeted therapy, richard lock, leuka...
News

Researchers find new way to target childhood cancer

Researcher
Monday, 18th Nov 19
Areas: Gene Regulation in Cancer, Gene Dysregulation, ...
Blog

Our New Research Structure

Thursday, 17th Oct 19
Areas: research, history
Blog

DIPG: Shining A Light On The Deadliest Childhood Cancer

Thursday, 26th Sep 19
Areas: research, Brain cancer, DIPG
Blog

Awareness Wednesday: Immunotherapy

Thursday, 26th Sep 19
Areas: research, leukaemia, immunotherapy
News

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, ...
News

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

Monday, 12th Aug 19
Areas: events, fundraising, city2surf
Blog

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

Wednesday, 31st Jul 19
Areas: Gene Regulation in Cancer, Gene Dysregulation, ...
News

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

Wednesday, 31st Jul 19
Areas: Gene Regulation in Cancer, Gene Dysregulation, ...
News

Anticancer Drug CBL0137 Highly Effective Against Infant Leuk...

Sunday, 28th Jul 19
Areas: research, leukaemia, research paper, research, ...
News

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

Sunday, 28th Jul 19
Areas: Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, leuk...
News

Therapy Developed For Alzheimers Could Help Leukaemia Patien...

Sunday, 30th Jun 19
Areas: charley de bock, Blood Cancers, Functional Geno...
News

New research paves the way for safer leukaemia treatments

Thursday, 30th May 19
Areas: Functional Genomics of Leukaemia, leukaemia, re...
News

Science Spotlight: Leukaemia Stem Cells

Monday, 27th May 19
Areas: research, leukaemia, stem cells, Blood Cancers,...
News

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

Wednesday, 15th May 19
Areas: minderoo foundation, Zero Childhood Cancer, fun...
News

Endure For A Cure 2019 – The Power Of The Pedal

Thursday, 18th Apr 19
Areas: events, fundraising, endure for a cure
News

Childhood cancer scientist rewarded for research excellence

Monday, 1st Apr 19
Areas: awards, Maria Kavallaris, Translational Cancer ...
News

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

Friday, 15th Mar 19
Areas: awards, Murray Norris, Molecular Targets and Ca...
Blog

Dr Angelica Merlot awarded 2019 NSW Young Woman of the Year

Wednesday, 13th Mar 19
Areas: awards, angelica merlot, tumour biology and tar...
News

World-Class Children's Comprehensive Cancer Centre Announced

Friday, 1st Mar 19
Areas: government, funding, comprehensive children's c...
Blog

Meet new Team Leader, Dr Charles de Bock

Thursday, 28th Feb 19
Areas: charley de bock, leukaemia, team leader, resear...
Blog

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

Monday, 18th Feb 19
Areas: neuroblastoma, research paper, clinical trial, ...
News

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

Friday, 1st Feb 19
Areas: Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, neur...
News

Maria Kavallaris receives Order of Australia

Saturday, 26th Jan 19
Areas: awards, Maria Kavallaris, Translational Cancer ...
Blog

Fundamental mechanism behind chemotherapy resistance reveale...

Monday, 17th Dec 18
Areas: research, leukaemia, chemotherapy, Leukaemia Bi...
Blog

Partnerships: Cancer Therapeutics CRC

Thursday, 13th Dec 18
Areas: research, drug discovery centre, Personalised m...
Blog

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

Monday, 19th Nov 18
Areas: research, neuroblastoma, Orazio Vittorio, metal...
News

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

Monday, 19th Nov 18
Areas: leukaemia, research, Blood cancers, Leukaemia b...
News

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

Monday, 19th Nov 18
Areas: Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, Meta...
Blog

Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

Friday, 5th Oct 18
Areas: events, fundraising, childhood cancer awareness...
Blog

Awareness Wednesday: Drug Discovery

Wednesday, 19th Sep 18
Areas: drug discovery centre, research
News

Awareness Wednesday: Cancer Genomics

Wednesday, 12th Sep 18
Areas: research, cancer genomics
News

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

Sunday, 2nd Sep 18
Areas: Personalised Medicine, Zero Childhood Cancer, m...
Blog

Tracking cancer with gold-coated nanoparticles

Thursday, 30th Aug 18
Areas: Translational Cancer Nanomedicine, Gene Therape...
News

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

Wednesday, 29th Aug 18
Areas: neuroblastoma, Joshua McCarroll, olivia lambert...
News

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

Monday, 16th Jul 18
Areas: government, media release, brain cancer
Blog

A global effort to improve childhood cancer treatment

Friday, 13th Jul 18
Areas: leukaemia, research, Blood cancers, Leukaemia b...
Blog

Let’s talk about nanomedicine

Thursday, 5th Jul 18
Areas: conference, Translational Cancer Nanomedicine
News

Nano-stars – targeting a deadly childhood brain cancer

Wednesday, 27th Jun 18
Areas: Translational Cancer Nanomedicine, research, br...
Blog

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

Wednesday, 30th May 18
Areas: history, research
Blog

Forging new alliances to tackle childhood cancer

Wednesday, 23rd May 18
Areas: neuroblastoma, research, partnerships
News

Neuroblastoma researchers build bridges in San Francisco

murray norris san francisco
Tuesday, 15th May 18
Areas: neuroblastoma, conference
Blog

$1 million funding boost for Zero Childhood Cancer program

Friday, 11th May 18
Areas: government, Zero Childhood Cancer, Personalised...
Blog

My first Mother’s Day without Byron

Friday, 11th May 18
Areas: neuroblastoma
Blog

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

Tuesday, 1st May 18
Areas: research, leukaemia, neuroblastoma, Zero Childh...
News

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

Thursday, 26th Apr 18
Areas: event, fundraising, toby trahair, zero childhoo...
News

My Daughter's Cancer Journey

Monday, 23rd Apr 18
Areas: leukaemia, families
News

New hope for children's brain cancer

Wednesday, 18th Apr 18
Areas: Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, Brai...
News

Reining In A Runaway Gene In Neuroblastoma

Friday, 6th Apr 18
Areas: neuroblastoma, research
Blog

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

children running
Thursday, 22nd Mar 18
Areas: Zero childhood cancer, Personalised medicine, r...
News

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 Ca...
News

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

Monday, 12th Mar 18
Areas: neuroblastoma, nanomedicine, research
Blog

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

marion le grande
Thursday, 15th Feb 18
Areas: neuroblastoma, Translational Cancer Nanomedicin...
News

Opening doors to a world of scientific exchange

student exchange ccia
Wednesday, 7th Feb 18
Areas: research, collaboration
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VR helps scientists ‘walk’ through cancer cells together

scientist researchers using vr
Monday, 8th Jan 18
Areas: research, Tumour Biology and Targeting, Transla...
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How specific DNA ‘microdeletions’ help predict leukaemia...

leukaemia micro deletion relapse
Monday, 11th Dec 17
Areas: leukaemia, research, paper, Molecular diagnosti...
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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, ...
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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
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How do clinical trials work?

children running
Wednesday, 22nd Nov 17
Areas: research, clinical trial
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Meet A Researcher: Q&A With Biljana Dumevska

researcher biljana dumevska
Wednesday, 15th Nov 17
Areas: Personalised Medicine, Zero Childhood Cancer
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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 ...
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Potential Leukaemia Drug Excites International Researchers

professor richard lock
Thursday, 2nd Nov 17
Areas: conference, research, leukaemia, Leukamia Biolo...
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Fighting Fund For Brain Cancer Aims To Double Survival

brain scan images
Monday, 30th Oct 17
Areas: government, funding, brain cancer, Zero childho...
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Resistance is Futile: The MRP1 Story

researchers in lab
Wednesday, 18th Oct 17
Areas: neuroblastoma, leukaemia, research
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How a Dad's Insights can Help Research

dad insight
Wednesday, 11th Oct 17
Areas: research, families, neuroblastoma
News

Awareness Wednesday: the Future of Childhood Cancer Research

vigil cancer awareness
Wednesday, 27th Sep 17
Areas: Zero childhood cancer, Personalised medicine, r...
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Awareness Wednesday: going into clinic

minister hunt with child
Wednesday, 20th Sep 17
Areas: clinical trial, research, Personalised medicine...
Blog

Zero Childhood Cancer personalised medicine clinical trial l...

minister hunt with jade
Monday, 18th Sep 17
Areas: clinical trial, Zero Childhood Cancer, personal...
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Children with most aggressive cancers to benefit from Austra...

Monday, 18th Sep 17
Areas: Personalised Medicine, Zero Childhood Cancer, c...
Blog

Awareness Wednesday: Testing our results

researcher holding flask
Wednesday, 13th Sep 17
Areas: Drug discovery centre, brain cancer, leukaemia
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Awareness Wednesday: Starting with the Basics

neuroblastoma cells
Wednesday, 6th Sep 17
Areas: research, translation, Childhood Cancer Awarene...
Blog

When I grow up, I want to cure cancer

toby ash in lab
Monday, 4th Sep 17
Areas: research, sarcoma, Gene Regulation in Cancer, E...
Blog

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, M...
Blog

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

michelle haber finalist
Friday, 28th Jul 17
Areas: Michelle Haber, awards
Blog

Sights set on an aggressive childhood leukaemia

baby hand held
Monday, 17th Jul 17
Areas: Blood cancers, Molecular diagnostics, leukaemia
Blog

Childhood cancers defy current understanding

cancers defy understanding
Wednesday, 21st Jun 17
Areas: research, Paediatric, neuroblastoma
Blog

Changing the future for children with brain cancer

amy
Friday, 2nd Jun 17
Areas: brain cancer, Brain Tumours, Molecular Targets ...
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Explainer: what is nanomedicine and how can it improve child...

medulloblastoma
Wednesday, 24th May 17
Areas: Translational Cancer Nanomedicine, research
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Clinical trials and Lind’s ‘acid test’

lemons
Thursday, 18th May 17
Areas: research, clinicial trial
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The microbe that started a revolution

nicki and jodie
Thursday, 27th Apr 17
Areas: microbe revolution, nanomedicine, maria kavalla...
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Zero Childhood Cancer update

researcher microscope
Tuesday, 18th Apr 17
Areas: Zero childhood cancer, Personalised medicine, c...
Blog

How parent's insights help my research

dr orazio microscope
Tuesday, 4th Apr 17
Areas: neuroblastoma, orazio vittorio, research, Metal...
Blog

New leukaemia subtype found by DNA test

rosemary sutton
Friday, 31st Mar 17
Areas: leukaemia, research paper, Molecular diagnostic...
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Facts & figures draw a picture of childhood cancer

crayon drawing
Wednesday, 22nd Mar 17
Areas: leukaemia, brain cancer, neuroblastoma
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Joining the dots to find neuroblastoma drug target

dna tray
Thursday, 16th Mar 17
Areas: research, tao liu, gene regulation in cancer, g...
Blog

Meet a Researcher: Q&A with Dr Alvin Kamili

alvin
Monday, 6th Mar 17
Areas: neuroblastoma, personalised medicine, zero chil...
Blog

Neuroblastoma treatment search: polyamine puzzles and beyond

Jigsaw Puzzle Polyamine
Thursday, 23rd Feb 17
Areas: neuroblastoma, research, clinical trial
Blog

Glowing report: firefly gene shows hidden leukaemia cells

fireflies
Thursday, 16th Feb 17
Areas: leukaemia, research paper, Leukaemia biology, B...
Blog

Taking a walk inside a cancer cell

inside cancer cell
Tuesday, 14th Feb 17
Areas: research, Tumour Biology and Targeting, Transla...
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An Aussie anti-cancer drug success story

cancer cells blood smear
Friday, 20th Jan 17
Areas: clinical trial, leukaemia, Leukaemia Biology, B...
Blog

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

Tuesday, 13th Dec 16
Areas: paediatric, media release, government
Blog

Big data wrangling: Bioinformatics and cancer research

bioinformation
Monday, 12th Dec 16
Areas: Chelsea Mayoh, Bioinformatics, Personalised med...
Blog

Profiler: what makes cancer cells’ metabolism different?

cci lab
Monday, 5th Dec 16
Areas: neuroblastoma, research
Blog

Zero Childhood Cancer program taking shape

PM turnbull visit ccia
Friday, 11th Nov 16
Areas: zero childhood cancer, personalised medicine, r...
Blog

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

child arms up
Friday, 4th Nov 16
Areas: zero childhood cancer, research, personalised m...
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$20M from Federal Government for Personalised Medicine Progr...

Thursday, 3rd Nov 16
Areas: Personalised Medicine, Zero Childhood Cancer, g...
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Four seasons in one lab

freezer nitrogen
Tuesday, 1st Nov 16
Areas: research
Blog

Skeletons in cancer fight

cancer cells skeleton
Thursday, 27th Oct 16
Areas: Tumour biology and targeting, research
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Professor Maria Kavallaris elected AAHMS Fellow

Friday, 7th Oct 16
Areas: Maria Kavallaris, awards, Translational Cancer ...
Blog

It’s our party: 40 years of research

40 years of research cci history
Friday, 30th Sep 16
Areas: leukaemia, history, events, fundraising
News

Children’s Cancer Institute celebrates 40th anniversary

Thursday, 29th Sep 16
Areas: media release, history, anniversary
Blog

Awareness Wednesday: Brain cancers

brain cancer researcher
Wednesday, 28th Sep 16
Areas: research, brain cancer, DIPG, Zero Childhood Ca...
Blog

Targeting high-risk leukaemia subtypes

leukaemia cells high risk
Tuesday, 27th Sep 16
Areas: research paper, leukaemia, Blood Cancers, Leuka...
Blog

Awareness Wednesday: Leukaemia

dr richard lock hair
Wednesday, 21st Sep 16
Areas: research, leukaemia, Blood Cancers, Leukaemia B...
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Awareness Wednesday: Neuroblastoma

eddy lab equipment
Wednesday, 14th Sep 16
Areas: research, Zero childhood cancer, neuroblastoma
Blog

Awareness Wednesday: Childhood cancer fast facts

plate with gloves
Wednesday, 7th Sep 16
Areas: leukaemia, brain cancer, neuroblastoma, childho...
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Robots play major role in tailoring treatment for kid's high...

Friday, 2nd Sep 16
Areas: Personalised Medicine, Zero Childhood Cancer, A...
Blog

Meet our researchers: Prof Maria Kavallaris

professor maria kavallaris
Sunday, 7th Aug 16
Areas: Maria Kavallaris, Tumour Biology and Targeting...
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Prime Minister announces major funding commitment for Zero C...

Tuesday, 31st May 16
Areas: government, media release, brain cancer
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A way to target the Achilles heel of neuroblastoma

researchers mycn cbl0137
Thursday, 5th Nov 15
Areas: research paper, neuroblastoma
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Zero Childhood Cancer program aims to push survival rates to...

Wednesday, 2nd Sep 15
Areas: Personalised Medicine, Zero Childhood Cancer, m...
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Deputy Director appointed AM

Monday, 8th Jun 15
Areas: Murray Norris, awards, Molecular Targets and Ca...
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Michelle Haber inaugural fellow AAHMS

Thursday, 26th Mar 15
Areas: Michelle Haber, awards, Molecular Targets and C...
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Children’s Cancer Institute and Sydney Children’s Hospit...

lab
Tuesday, 2nd Sep 14
Areas: neuroblastoma, clinical trial
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Children’s Cancer Institute’s Executive Director wins to...

Michelle Haber
Saturday, 23rd Aug 14
Areas: michelle haber, awards, Molecular Targets and C...
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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
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Prestigious Commonwealth investment heralds a new era in chi...

Monday, 3rd Mar 14
Areas: personalised medicine, government

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