Meet the team! Maren is a PhD student in the #Leukaemia Translational Research Team. She focuses on the role of bone marrow endothelial cells in high-risk leukaemia and hopes to pave the way for new therapeutic targets to improve the outcomes for high-risk patients 👏

To celebrate the arrival of our new #Honours students , the Telethon Kids Cancer Centre hosted a Picnic in the Park! The teams stepped away from the labs, enjoyed a delicious picnic lunch and we even snuck in a friendly game of soccer, giant jenga & connect4! #KingsPark #Honours

The Australian Children's Brain Cancer Conference was recently held in #Brisbane . This saw world-leading experts share insights & research findings in the fight against paediatric #braincancer . Telethon Kids Cancer Centre Dr Meegan Howlett presented & Hilary Hii received a poster award! 👏

Join us for an exclusive information session with Dr Ben Wylie, one of our 2024 grant recipients and an emerging sarcoma researcher based at Telethon Kids Institute and UWA

🧬 Live today at 12:30 PM AEDT, you can still register here: curecancer.com.au/lunch-and-lear…

Meet the researcher! Ben Wylie will be hosting a Lunch & Learn session with Cure Cancer this Thursday to discuss 'The potential of mRNA, an emerging technology famously used in the COVID-19 vaccine, to tackle paediatric #sarcoma '. Please visit shorturl.at/gzGM9

Congratulations to A/Prof Rishi Kotecha who has been awarded 2nd chance funding through the WA Near Miss Awards: Emerging Leaders Program. This funding, backed by the WA Government’s Future Health Research & Innovation Fund will be used to advance #childhoodcancer treatments 👏

Happy #InternationalWomensDay2024 ! Today, and every day, we celebrate the female researchers, students & professional staff who contribute to the world-class research in the Telethon Kids Cancer Centre. Thank you for all that you do #IWD2024 #InspireInclusion

We are celebrating a hat-trick in the Telethon Kids Cancer Centre! Not one, not two but three PhD theses submitted in 10 days! A huge congratulations to Shannon Carey-Smith from the Translational Genomics in Leukaemia Team who submitted his thesis last Friday. Time to celebrate, Shannon!

Congratulations to the recipients of the Cancer Council WA Research Project Grants. Special mention to Prof Nick Gottardo & Ben Wylie from the Telethon Kids Cancer Centre 👏 Our sincere thanks to Cancer Council WA for your continued support of our #childhood #cancer #research 🙌

Congratulations to Ben Wylie from the Telethon Kids Cancer Centre who has received an Illuminate Pitchfest award! This event saw ten outstanding researchers pitch their projects to a live audience of passionate philanthropists & donors in a bid to secure funding. Well done to all involved!

It's been a very busy week in the Telethon Kids Cancer Centre with another one of our amazing PhD students, Breana Vitali from the Sarcoma Translational Research Team, submitting her thesis! A huge CONGRATULATIONS on this exciting milestone, Breana. Time to celebrate! 🥳

Take a bow Zahra!! A huge CONGRATULATIONS to Zahra Abbas from the Brain Tumour Research Team who submitted her PhD thesis last week! Everyone in the Telethon Kids Cancer Centre is so happy for you. Enjoy the celebrations!

Fabulous February continues! Congratulations are in order for Prof Nick Gottardo, Dr Raelene Endersby, Dr Meegan Howlett and the Brain Tumour Research Team in addition to Ben Wylie & Dr Tao Wang who have received project grants from Cancer Council WA! UWA UWA Research

Congratulations to Jessica Buck who has received important funding to establish Australia's first Indigenous #ChildhoodCancer research program. This program hopes to discover & develop new treatment strategies for Indigenous children to improve survival & minimise side effects

#InternationalChildhoodCancerDay is recognised and supported by all in the Telethon Kids Cancer Centre. A childhood diagnosis of cancer is devastating & we're exploring new therapies in #medicalresearch , to make treatments more effective with fewer side effects #ICCD2024

Congratulations to Ben Wylie who has received funding from Cure Cancer! This funding will enable him to build on existing Telethon Kids Cancer Centre research & investigate the potential of mRNA technology to activate the immune system against residual sarcoma cancer cells 👏

Today, Sunday 11th February is recognised globally as the #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience . Telethon Kids Cancer Centre would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge and celebrate the achievements of all women in science but especially those in our Cancer Centre! 👏🧪🔬

The Telethon Kids Cancer Centre is very fortunate to receive generous support from the Australian Lions Childhood Cancer Research Foundation. Last week we had the pleasure of formally thanking & celebrating Peter Lamb's wonderful contribution representing the Foundation 👏

A huge congratulations to these awesome Honours students on their recent Graduation! We feel so lucky that you were part of the Telethon Kids Cancer Centre in 2023. Wishing you all a fantastic future in #medicalresearch ! UWA UWA Research

Wishing our wonderful supporters, colleagues & friends a safe & happy festive break. Enjoy this special time with your loved ones & you will see most of us back in the Labs from 8th January 2024! #childhoodcancer