Research & Impact

We fund the brightest new research
projects across every cancer to save and change
millions of lives.

Your impact

We have been backing pioneering cancer research since 1967.

Thanks to you, we’ve kick-started more than 560 new ideas that have broken new ground to save lives.

Many of the talented emerging scientists whom we funded have had global breakthroughs and are now global leaders in cancer research.

Together, we will go even further to find the most impactful cures for cancer as quickly as we can.

Backing cutting-edge research for 58 years and counting

raised for cancer research

projects funded across all cancer types

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Our 2025 researchers

Dr Zhian Chen

Cancer Type: Lung cancer Research: Engineering next-generation immunotherapies for lung cancer...

Dr Sarah Diepstraten

Cancer Type: Blood cancer Research: Fighting aggressive blood cancer - a STING operation

Dr Kevin Fenix

Cancer Type: Gastro-intestinal cancer Research: Utilising cutting-edge technologies to test the effectiveness...

Dr Luis Lara Gonzalez

Cancer Type: Breast cancer Research: Understanding deadly HER2-positive breast cancer through detailed...

Dr Robert Ju

Cancer Type: All cancers Research: Harnessing the Immune System to Target and Destroy Metastatic Cancer...

A/Prof Arutha Kulasinghe (2025)

Cancer Type: Immunotherapy Research: Using high-res technology to identify tumour-immune cell interactions...

Dr Kellie Mouchemore

Cancer Type: Breast cancer Research: Mapping the tumour landscape to develop novel treatments and improve...

Dr Aparna Rao

Cancer Type: Skin cancer Research: Unlocking the secrets of melanoma’s energy use to improve treatment...

A/Prof Orazio Vittorio 2025

Cancer Type: Childhood cancer Research: Reprogramming immune cells to improve immunotherapy and overcome...

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Dr Ben Wylie

Cancer Type: Childhood Cancer Research Research: Developing novel immunotherapies to prevent the recurrence...

A/Prof Orazio Vittorio - Clinical Trial

Cancer Type: Childhood cancer Research: Clinical trial - Enhancing anti-neuroblastoma immunotherapy...

Our research grant program

We are dedicated to funding new innovative cancer research projects, giving talented emerging cancer researchers the opportunity to pursue their innovative ideas across diverse areas of cancer research.

Through our Research Grants Program, we commit to back new ideas from the most brilliant minds in cancer research.

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