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The Cure For Life Foundation™ has awarded 16 Fellowships or Grants-in-aid focusing on brain tumour research along with funding for Australia's first paediatric Brain Tumour Rehabilitation Programme with a commitment totaling over $1,500,000.

2008/2009 Cure For Life Foundation™ Grants-in-aid:

    DR DANIEL SPEIDEL & DR ELLA L. KIM
    Children’s Medical Research Institute
    Research Topic : Exploiting Chloroquine as an anti-glioma agent.

    DR MICHAEL BUCKLAND
    Dept Anatomical Pathology
    St Vincent’s Hospital 
    Research Topic: A comprehensive methylation analysis of 1p and 19q: a method to identify putative tumour suppressor genes in
    gliomas.  

    Grants-in-aid: $10,000 each

2007/2008 Cure For Life Foundation™ Fellowships:

    DR KERRIE MCDONALD
    Kolling Institute of Medical Research
    Research Topic: Can we find genes that predict which GBM patient will become a long term survivor?

    DR ROD LUWOR
    Melbourne University
   Research Topic: Growth Factor Mediated Suppression of TGF-b Signalling Enhances Brain Tumour Development

    DR PETER LOCK
    University of Melbourne
   Research Topic: A Brain Tumour Stem Cell Resource for Glioma Research

    DR LESLIE ASHTON 
    Children’s Cancer Institute Australia
    Research Topic: “CNS tumours in children: a potential role for the folate metabolic pathway”

    Fellowships: $40,000 each.

2007/2008 Cure For Life Foundation™ Grants-in-aid:

    Prof Barry Allen 
    Centre for Experimental Radiation Oncology
    Research Topic: Role of Targeting in the Management of Malignant Brain Tumours

    Dr Uwe Ackerman 
    University of Melbourne
    Targeted delivery of hypoxia selective anticancer agents – A new approach for the treatment of glioblastoma
    multiforme

    Dr L Munoz 
    University of Sydney
    Will selective p38 MAPK inhibitor prevent brain tumour progression and metastasis?

    Grants-in-aid: $10,000 each

2007 Cure For Life Foundation™ Equipment Grant:

    DR KERRIE MCDONALD
    Kolling Institute of Medical Research
    Equipment in support of the project: Delivering the Right Drug to the Right Patient: Predictive Biomarker Discovery

    Grants Amount: $118,829

2005-2008 Cure For Life Foundation™ Fellowship:

    DR WAYNE THOMAS
    Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research in conjuction with the University of New South Wales
    Research Topic: Mechanisms of Initiation and Prevention of Brain Tumours

    Fellowship: $600,000 over 3 years.