Another step in the battle against childhood cancer

07 November 2005

UNSW conjoint academics who are based at the Children's Cancer Institute Australia (CCIA) have been awarded a program grant of more than three million dollars over five years by the Cancer Institute NSW.

The grant is for 'excellence in translational research' and will support researchers in programs aimed at developing new, targeted approaches to treating childhood cancer.

The results of the work in molecular carcinogenesis, molecular diagnostics and experimental therapeutics will also be used to help tackle common adult cancers.

This is one of only three such program grants awarded by the Cancer Institute NSW since its inception.

The team, of Associate Professors Glenn Marshall and Murray Norris and Professor Michelle Haber, also recently won a five year National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) grant worth more than four and a half million dollars for their work on the rare childhood cancer neuroblastoma.