What an un-fore-gettable day! Thank you to all of our golfers, volunteers, and sponsors for making our inaugural Connor’s Golf Classic a truly spectacular event. We are still tallying the funds, but so far we are looking at over $80,000 raised for young people with brain cancer. What an awesome effort! A very special thanks to Victoria Golf Club for hosting us, going above and beyond to make sure the day ran smoothly. Congratulations to our winning team: TLS Transport- Paul Vawdrey, Corey McKernan, Darren Goss and Jared Rivers, with a combined stableford score of 111. During dinner, our Legacy ..read more

The Robert Connor Dawes Foundation are proud to announce that we are co-funding South Australia’s first biobank. Dubbed ‘Brain Turbo SA’, the biobank is being spearheaded by renowned brain cancer specialist and McClurg Brain Cancer Fellow at South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), Professor Jordan Hansford and is being used to study child brain tumours into the future. “We’re going to learn about survivorship, we’re going to learn about diseases and we’re going to learn how to continually improve patient care,” Prof Hansford said. “The biobank will ultimately give us t ..read more

16 year old Adam is the first patient in the world to trial a new brain cancer treatment. This world-first cancer treatment trial, tackling a rare and debilitating paediatric brain tumour commenced at the Perth Children’s Hospital. Adam will be joined by more than 30 other children across the world to trial a treatment for Adamantinomatous Craniopharyngioma (ACP) over the next two years. The new study, “CONNECT1905” is co-funded by the Robert Connor Dawes Foundation and Carrie’s Beanies 4 Brain Cancer Foundation The new study, “CONNECT1905”, developed by the international clinical trials ..read more

A Very Merry Christmas from all of us at the Robert Connor Dawes Foundation!    The post Liz’s Christmas Message appeared first on RCD Foundation ..read more

We enjoyed Community Day at Sandringham Little Athletics on Saturday.  It was great to have our major partner Coles and their ambassador, 2 x World Champion and Olympic Bronze medalist, Kelsey-Lee Barber there alongside us. We raised over $3000. Thank you to our awesome group of volunteers from Firbank Grammar for helping us out on the day.     The post Sandringham Little Aths Community Day appeared first on RCD Foundation ..read more

What a weekend! Thank you to the 25+ Team RCD athletes used their brawn for the brain participating in the Noosa Triathlon. The participants raised over $30,000 for paediatric brain cancer research, care, and development projects. THANK YOU!   Check out the rest of our photos on Facebook HERE The post 2023 Noosa Tri appeared first on RCD Foundation ..read more

We had the great honour of accepting a massive $419,431 cheque from Coles, raised last month during the BrainHeart Campaign. The campaign ran in all 220 Victorian Coles stores, and online from August 31-September 20, 2022. Through the sale of Sock it to Brain Cancer socks, $2 BrainHeart cards, and select Coles cookies, the funds were raised thanks to the support of dedicated staff, and big-hearted shoppers. Coles Local Victorian stores also sold speciality Cremorne Bakery cookies and T.House products, along with the cards and socks. The Altona Meadows location was the top  fundraising st ..read more

September 26 is Brain Cancer Awareness Day. This year the focus is on high grade glioma (HGG).  High-grade gliomas (HGGs) are the most malignant type of CNS tumours that occur in children. They are tumours of the glial cells, cells found in the brain and spinal cord. They are fast-growing and they spread quickly through brain tissue, which makes them hard to treat. While current treatment involves a multimodal approach, combining radiation and chemotherapy, the 5-year survival rate is <20%, underscoring an urgent need for novel therapies.   Find out more about wh ..read more

September 26 is Brain Cancer Awareness Day. This year the focus is on high grade glioma (HGG). We have highlighted all of the projects we have committed funding to relating to research in HGG. Researcher:  Assoc. Prof. Misty Jenkins Institution:  Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne Victoria, Australia Developing new immunotherapies to treat brain cancer RCD Amount: $500,000 Summary: RCD funded a five-year research program to bring novel cutting edge therapies into the clinic to treat paediatric brain cancer. CAR T Cell therapy, it involves taking a patient’s immune cells and m ..read more

Monday, 26 September is the fourth annual Childhood Brain Cancer Awareness Day. Each year a different tumour type is highlighted, this year is high grade glioma (HGG).  Our beautiful Legacy Ambassador Zoe Stanley tragically passed away from a glioblastoma multiforme tumour, a type of HGG. In March 2017, 5-year-old Zoe Stanley was diagnosed with a rare and incurable giant cell glioblastoma multiforme tumour. Zoe was a joyful, artistic, and brave little girl who loved everything unicorns, butterflies, and rainbows. Just prior to Christmas  2017, just nine months after diagnosis ..read more