Challenge Research Fund
The Child Cancer Foundation has funds available for scientific research to be conducted into the causes of childhood cancer. This initiative is called the Challenge Research Fund.
The deadline for applications is 1 November.
Grants in Aid
In addition to the Challenge Research Fund, the Child Cancer Foundation supports other research opportunities which may be funded locally or nationally through one-off grants.
New thinking on why childhood leukaemia develops
Why does a one year old, a three year old or ten year old get leukaemia? This is the question Dr Ian Morison, Cancer Genetics Laboratory researcher and his team at the University of Otago ask themselves every day. Are all children equally at risk or not? [read more]
Challenge Research Fund Report
In July 2002, Dr Michael Sullivan and Professor Anthony Reeve were granted the sum of $93,000 from the Foundation’s Challenge Research Fund to cover the first phase costs of a research project entitled "Intelligent Data Tools and Microarray Gene Expression Analysis for Clinical Decision Making in Neuroblastoma."...[read more]
