Research Partnerships
The Leukaemia Foundation funds vital research into the causes, epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment, psychosocial impact and ultimately cures for leukaemias, lymphomas, myeloma and related blood disorders.
Leukaemia Foundation Research Unit
The Leukaemia Foundation Research Unit at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research was established to find cures for blood cancers and related disorders and deliver the benefits to patients as quickly as possible.
Leukaemia & lymphoma tissue bank
The PwC Foundation Leukaemia and Lymphoma Tissue Bank gives researchers access to accumulated tissue samples of blood disorders and enables research groups to rapidly conduct larger scale studies.
Australian Blood Cancer Registry
The Australian Blood Cancer Registry is being developed to collect detailed and accurate information on blood cancers. The information will be used to improve the capacity of clinicians, patients and governments to make informed and timely decisions on the management of blood cancers.
Partnership with Cancer Australia
The Leukaemia Foundation is pleased to advise that it has partnered in the 2010 round of Cancer Australia’s Priority-driven Collaborative Cancer Research Scheme. Through this grants scheme the Leukaemia Foundation will support cancer research project grants in its identified research priority area:
"Research directed at improving epidemiologic knowledge, pathogenic understanding or health related outcomes of patients with myelodysplastic syndromes"
The research priority areas of the Leukaemia Foundation and other funding partners and further information about the grants scheme can be found on the Cancer Australia website (www.canceraustralia.gov.au). Relevant documentation, including application forms and instructions for applicants will be published on the websites of Cancer Australia and the National Health and Medical Research Council in December 2008, to coincide with the opening of the call for applications on 8 December 2009. The call for applications will close on March 2010.
For further information regarding this partnership please click here.
Clinical trials
Clinical trials seek to deliver better treatments and cures of leukaemias, lymphomas, myeloma or related disorders. These trials may provide vital information and give people access to new therapies not yet funded by governments.
