Where does your money go?
The Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF) has provided 38 grants totalling $62 million to Australian cancer research institutes since 1987 with $40 million awarded in the last five years.
In 2009 we received 10 applications for more than $30 million to fund outstanding projects.
The two projects finally selected are the best of the best by world standards. Our dream is to fund, one day, all the worthy projects and with your support, we will. Click on the links below to read more about our past grantees.
2010 Cancer Research Grants – Shortlisted Applicants
2009 Grants
$3.1 million – Children’s Medical Research Institute & University of Newcastle (NSW): for the world’s first Chemical Proteomics Centre for Kinomics
$3.5 million – The Centre for Cancer Biology and the University of Adelaide (SA): to establish a new Cancer Genomics Facility
2008 Grants
$2.5 million – Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, for new technologies to identify genes controlling cancer cell behaviour
$2.5 million – Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Queensland University, to decipher gene and protein interactions which affect the behaviour of cancer cells
$2.5 million – The Garvan St Vincents Campus Cancer Centre, Sydney, to support the research components which will be part of a world-class comprehensive cancer centre
2007 Grants
$5 million – Centenary Institute for Cancer Research and Sydney Cancer Centre – ACRF Centre for Basic and Translational Cancer Research
$3.2 million – Diamantina Institute for Cancer Immunology and Metabolic Medicine, Brisbane – ACRF Comprehensive Cancer Genomics Facility
$2.7 million – Queensland Institute for Medical Research, Brisbane – The ACRF Centre for Cancer Epigenetics
$3.1 million – Children’s Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research, NSW – ACRF Drug Discovery Centre for Childhood Cancer
2006 Grants
$1.1 million – Menzies Research Institute, TAS – ACRF Tasmanian Inherited Cancer Centre
$1.2 million – Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, NSW – Cell & Molecular Therapy Unit equipment and fit-out
Special $5 million Grant – Melbourne Comprehensive Cancer Centre – ACRF Centre for Therapeutic Target Discovery
2005 Grants
$1.14 million – Queensland Brain Institute (University of Queensland), QLD – Integrated Brain Tumour Flow Cytometry Screening Facility
$1 million – Royal Melbourne Hospital, VIC – Translational research laboratory interface (Hematology and Bone Marrow research)
$1 million – The Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Melbourne VIC – Bioinfomatics and tissue banking
$1 million – Westmead Institute for Cancer Research, Sydney, NSW – New wing increasing collaboration among researchers
$1 million – Flinders University/Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, SA – Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer Prevention and Care laboratory
2004 Grants
$1.13 million – The John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT – Biomolecular Resource Facility
$1 million – Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, VIC – New Children’s Cancer Research Centre laboratories
$900,000 – St. Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, VIC – ACRF Rational Drug Discovery Facility
$1.2 million – Institute for Molecular Bioscience, QLD – Cellular imaging
$1.1 million – Garvan Institute of Mediacl Research, NSW – Molecular genetics
$1 million – Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Vic – Cell Imaging program
2003 Grants
$1.5 million – University of Adelaide, SA – Early diagnosis
$1.35 million – QLD Institute of Medical Research – Cellular imaging
2002 Grants
$500,000 – Children’s Cancer Institute Australia, University of NSW - Formation of new blood vessels
$1 million – Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Vic – 3D Imaging of proteins
2001 Grants
$1.3 million – Australian Genome Research Facility, Vic & QLD – Microarray
$1.2 million – Western Australian Institute for Medical Research, Royal Perth Hospital, WA – Eight state-of-the-art research laboratories
1999/2000 Grants
$1.02 million – Westmead Institute for Cancer Research, NSW – Skin, breast & ovarian cancers and leukaemia
$1 million – Centre for Immunology & Cancer Research, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD – Vaccine for Cervical Cancer
1998 Grants
$50,000 – University of Tasmania – Immune system & cancer defence
1997 Grants
$1 million – Medical Genome Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT – Immune system, gene & cancer defence
1995 Grants
$1.096 million – Centre for Molecular & Cellular Biology, University of Queensland – Skin, Kidney & childhood cancers
$1 million – Hanson Institute, SA – Leukaemia & solid cancers
1992 Grants
$1.08 million – Austin Research Institute, Vic – Immune system & cancer defence (breast cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreas cancer, lung cancer & bowel cancer)
1989 Grants
$610,000 – Cancer Research Centre, St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research, Vic – Solid cancers & bone breakdown
1987 Grants
$1 million – Centre for Immunology, St Vincent’s Hospital, NSW – Immune system and cancer defence
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