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Submission of EOI closes on Friday 14 November 2025 The Hon Stephen Dawson, WA Minister for Medical Research, today announced the launch of the WA Collaborative Cancer Research Grant (CCRG). This substantial Grant has been made possible by a partnership

The Minister for Medical Research, Hon Stephen Dawson has announced today the Cancer Research Trust (The Trust) has been successful in securing a partnership with the Future Health Research and Innovation (FHRI) Fund through its Co-Funding Partnerships Program for the

The Cancer Research Trust (CRT) is pleased to advise that the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF) and the CRT, originally signed in July 2019 and extended for the period 2022 – 2024, has once

The CRT Board is delighted to welcome a new Board member, Dr Helga Mikkelsen. Dr Helga Mikkelsen is WA-based Investment Manager at Brandon Capital, which is Australia and New Zealand’s largest large life science-focused venture capital firm. Following degrees in

The CRT congratulates Dr Ben Dwyer, Scientific Lead in the CRT funded “Defeating Primary Liver Cancer” program and Project Lead on the CRT funded “Australian Centre for RNA Therapeutics in Cancer” (ACRTC) program, on being awarded more than $500,000 from

The Cancer Research Trust (CRT) is very pleased to announce that the successful applicants for the 2023 CRT WA Collaborative Cancer Research Grants are: Professor Archa Fox, Chief Investigator, for her “Australian Centre for RNA Therapeutics in Cancer” program Professor

The Collaborative Cancer Grant Scheme (CCGS) was developed by the Cancer Council WA in 2016 as a new funding initiative and has, in partnership with leading Western Australian institutions, awarded $1,121,471 to successful recipients over four funding rounds. The CRT is

Submission of EOI closes on Wednesday 30 November 2022. The Cancer Research Trust (CRT) has established The Grant to support, energise and fund collaborative and innovative cancer research in Western Australia. The Grant will provide support for teams of high

On 1 July 2019, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF) and the Cancer Research Trust (CRT) was signed, setting forth the terms and understanding to further enhance cancer research capacity in Western Australia and

The Cancer Research Trust is very pleased to announce that, following a very favourable review by a panel of internationally renowned cancer researchers of the first five years of Professor Alistair Forrest’s “Enabling Advance Single Cell Cancer Genomics in WA”

The Cancer Research Trust (CRT) is very pleased to announce that the successful applicants for the 2020 CRT WA Collaborative Cancer Research Grant are Professor Peter Leedman and Associate Professor Nina Tirnitz-Parker, Co-Chief Investigators of their “Defeating Primary Live Cancer”

The CRT Board is delighted to welcome two new Board members viz. Professor Ruth Ganss and Dr Joost Lesterhuis. Professor Ruth Ganss is the Scientific Head of the Cancer Division at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research. Her current

A $1.75M grant awarded by the Australian Cancer Research Fund (ACRF) will fund three pieces of equipment, including a high throughput next generation DNA sequencer and equipment to isolate single cells from a patient’s tumour. The equipment will make it

World-leading cancer research projects led by The University of Western Australia have today received a boost with $18 million in funding from the Cancer Research Trust and other partners. The projects, led by Professor Christobel Saunders and Professor Alistair Forrest,

On 16th September 2016, the CRT’s WA Collaborative Cancer Research Grant was launched at an event held in COMO The Treasury in Perth. The event was attended by the then Minister for Health, the Hon John Day MLA and the

An internationally renowned genomic researcher who published breakthrough discoveries about cell development in top international journal Science today, has returned to his home town of Perth after 20 years. Professor Alistair Forrest has joined the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical

Edith Cowan University melanoma researcher Dr Elin Gray will investigate how to better target treatment for cancer patients after being awarded a $750,000 research fellowship. The five-year Cancer Research Trust Fellowship will strengthen Dr Gray’s research into the role of