{"id":14742,"date":"2022-02-02T12:59:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T12:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=14742"},"modified":"2022-02-02T12:59:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T12:59:31","slug":"top-victorian-researchers-join-together-to-fight-childhood-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/02\/02\/top-victorian-researchers-join-together-to-fight-childhood-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Victorian researchers join together to fight childhood cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The unique research expertise and clinical capabilities located in Victoria have come together in a new, multi-institutional partnership to fight childhood cancer.<br \/>\nWith the aid of a $9.6 million Morrison Government grant, the Victorian Paediatric Cancer Consortium (VPCC) will help advance childhood cancer research and treatment.<br \/>\nThe VPCC gathers world leading expertise from the Monash Technology Precinct and the Melbourne Biomedical Precinct, and has enormous potential to establish both Melbourne and Australia as global leaders in childhood cancer research.<br \/>\nMinister for Health and Aged Care, Greg Hunt, said the Morrison Government is committed to ensuring every Australian child diagnosed with cancer has access to the latest, most effective treatment and the best chance of survival.<br \/>\n\u201cTragically, survival rates for some cancers among children and young adults have not improved in more than 25 years, and rates of several childhood cancers are slowly rising. Cancer kills more children in Australia than any other disease,\u201d Minister Hunt said.<br \/>\n\u201cThe VPCC will focus on discovery research projects in next generation precision oncology, tumour immunotherapy and epigenomic.<br \/>\n\u201cIt will also run clinical programs aimed at improving survival times and rates, reducing children\u2019s adverse reactions to treatment, and translating new discoveries into clinical treatment.\u201d<br \/>\nThe grant to the VPCC is provided over three years through the Medical Research Future Fund\u2019s Emerging Priorities and Consumer Driven Research Initiative. The grant defines childhood cancer as cancer in children from newborns to 19 year-olds.<br \/>\nThe consortium is co-led by Professor Ron Firestein from the Hudson Institute of Medical Research and Monash University, and Professor David Eisenstat, Head of the Children&#8217;s Cancer Centre at the Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital and Neuro-Oncology Group Leader at the Murdoch Children&#8217;s Research Institute.<br \/>\nThe $20 billion MRFF is a long-term, sustainable investment in Australian health and medical research, helping to improve lives, build the economy and contribute to the sustainability of the health system, which ensures a guaranteed funding stream to support Australia\u2019s best and brightest health researchers.<br \/>\nFurther information about the MRFF is available at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.health.gov.au\/mrff\">www.health.gov.au\/mrff<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unique research expertise and clinical capabilities located in Victoria have come together in a new, multi-institutional partnership to fight childhood cancer. With the aid of a $9.6 million Morrison Government grant, the Victorian Paediatric Cancer Consortium (VPCC) will help advance childhood cancer research and treatment. The VPCC gathers world leading expertise from the Monash &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/02\/02\/top-victorian-researchers-join-together-to-fight-childhood-cancer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Top Victorian researchers join together to fight childhood cancer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}