The Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF) has provided  38 grants totalling $62 million to Australian cancer research institutes since 1987 with $46 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.

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

Click here for ACRF grant recipients between 1987 and 2004

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