The Telethon Kids Cancer Centre (TKCC) is a group of dedicated researchers striving to improve cure rates for young people affected by cancer. Our researchers ensure their research is grounded in clinical practice. We achieve this by forging strong partnerships between laboratory researchers and paediatric oncologists, pathologists, surgeons, imaging specialists and radiation oncologists. ...

Listed are all Telethon Kids Institute research teams involved in our Cancer Program. This program sits under the Chronic and Severe Diseases research theme. ...

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What would you discover to help a child? At Telethon Kids, our researchers are committed to Cancer research that makes a real difference. ...

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• 2017
• Discover Series

Work by the Institute's Division of Children's Leukaemia and Cancer Research has been recognised with three research grants from the Cancer Council of WA. ...

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• 2010
• April

Researchers within the Cancer Immunology and Biology group are working to develop safer immunotherapy and personalised medicine treatments across various deadly childhood cancers, including brain cancer, sarcoma, leukaemia, and neuroblastoma. ...

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• Cancer Program

The purpose of this role is to evaluate cancer neoantigens in oncogenic mouse models, in order to develop novel peptide vaccines. The Telethon Kids ...

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The Telethon Kids Institute has an opening for a postdoctoral position in paediatric cancer transcriptomics with a focus on brain tumours. The ...

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Telethon Kids Institute cancer researcher, Dr Jason Waithman, has been named Cancer Council WA’s 2021 Cancer Researcher of the Year. ...

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• 2021
• October

Dr Nick Gottardo and Dr Raelene Endersby from the Telethon Kids Institute are the driving force behind an innovative, global action group on child brain cancer. ...

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• 2016
• May

The induction of DNA damage has been employed as an anticancer strategy for more than 100years, first starting with the use of radiation to treat stomach cancer followed by the first uses of DNA-damaging chemotherapy to treat childhood leukemia. ...

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• 2022
• January 2022