Advances in Queensland Cancer Research thanks to ACRF Posted on February 10, 2010February 25, 2018 by Carly du Toit The Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF) continues to build on its 25-year legacy by funding the opening of a new $2.5 million world leading cancer-imaging facility in Queensland. Since being established in 1984 by the late Sir Peter Abeles, the Australian Cancer Research Foundation has now funded more than $62 million in cutting edge cancer research with the power to change the world. The new ‘ACRF Cancer Biology Imaging Facility’, part of The Institute for Molecular Bioscience located at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, is now the most advanced facility of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. The Governor of Queensland, Her Excellency Ms Penelope Wensley AO officially opened it on the morning of February 10. The Facility will allow IMB researchers to unravel the molecular reasons why healthy cells turn into cancerous cells and spread through the body. Continue reading “Advances in Queensland Cancer Research thanks to ACRF”
