Research alumni projects

Seed funding that helped shape Australia’s childhood cancer research landscape.

The Kids' Cancer Project invests in bold, future-focused research that strives to change the ways in which childhood cancer is diagnosed, treated and managed. 

By providing critical seed funding for innovative ideas, The Kids’ Cancer Project enables researchers to generate the early evidence needed to attract larger government and institutional investment, helping promising discoveries progress from the laboratory to the clinic. This approach has helped shape Australia's childhood cancer research landscape by turning high-potential ideas into life-changing breakthroughs.

Alumni research projects

Col Reynolds Fellowships, Dr Hannah Walker

Recipient: Dr Hannah Walker Institute: Murdoch Children’s Research Institute Funding: $35,000.00 PhD Scholarship - Top Up

Targeting the DC-T cell axis to treat glioblastoma

Recipient: Dr Tessa Gargett Institute: Royal Adelaide Hospital The Kids' Cancer Project Funding: $299,947 January 2023 to December 2025 Cancer Australia PdCCRS: $299,947 Total Funding: $599,894

Targeting NAD metabolism to overcome therapeutic resistance in acute myeloid leukaemia

Recipient: Dr Klaartje Somers Institute: Children’s Cancer Institute The Kids' Cancer Project Funding: $181,559 January 2023 to December 2025 Cancer Australia PdCCRS: $381,559 Total Funding: $563,118

RECOVER – Responding to late effects in survivors of childhood cancer

Recipient: Dr Natalie Bradford Institute: Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Funding: $299,882 July 2022 to June 2025

(GENIE) A combined GENetic and follicle density risk prediction approach to identifying InfErtility risk in paediatric cancer patients

Recipient: Dr Rachel Conyers Institute: The Murdoch Children’s Research Institute Funding: $301,752 July 2022 to June 2025

From bench to bedside – Developing an osteosarcoma precision oncology workflow

Recipient: Dr Jacqui McGovern Institute: Queensland University of Technology Funding: $299,171 June 2022 to July 2025 (The Kids' Cancer Project: $199,171 and The Tie Dye Project: $100,000)

Targeting the thioredoxin system as a novel strategy for DIPG

Recipient: Associate Professor David Ziegler and Dr Dannielle Upton Institute: Children’s Cancer Institute Funding: $329,440 January 2022 to December 2024

INTER-EWING-1: Improving outcomes of newly diagnosed Ewing sarcoma

Recipient: A/Professor Geoff McCowage  Institute: Children's Hospital at Westmead Funding: $300,000 July 2022 to June 2025 (The Kids' Cancer Project: $150,000, The Cooper Rice-Brading Foundation: $150,000)

Reducing long-term side-effects of chemotherapy in cancer survivors

Recipient: Professor Irina Vetter Institute: The University of Queensland Funding: $298,141 October 2021 to September 2024

Exploiting the DNA damage response in paediatric sarcoma

Recipient: Dr Emmy Fleuren and Dr Emmy Dolman Institute: Children’s Cancer Institute Funding: $261,649 June 2021 to June 2024

Enhancing radiation therapy to improve survival outcomes for children with aggressive brain cancer

Recipient: Professor Nick Gottardo Institute: Telethon Kids Institute Funding: $108,556 October 2021 to September 2022

Identifying the right sarcoma treatment at the right time

Recipient: Dr Emmy Fleuren Institute: Children's Cancer Institute Funding: $373,599 June 2021 to June 2024 (The Kids' Cancer Project: $186,799.50, The Cooper Rice-Brading Foundation: $186,799.50)
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