Global Alternative Funds 2024
Advancing epigenetics research will deliver life-saving melanoma treatments.
The collective impact that we can make to improving the outcomes for melanoma patients with our cumulative philanthropic support is limitless and life-saving.
Philanthropy holds the key to the progressing the innovative, world-leading medical research of Dr Jessamy Tiffen and her team in Centre for Cancer Innovations at the Centenary Institute.
Together we can drive discovery and advance knowledge.
In 2016 a Time Magazine front page read “what if your immune system could be taught to kill cancer?”.
The paradigm shift in the work of Dr Jessamy Tiffen and her team at the Centenary Institute can be summarised in a revised title for Time Magazine: “what are the critical cheats notes to impart on immune cells so that they can become serial cancer killers.”
The discoveries that Dr Tiffen and her team make will be progressed to inform new attempts at educating immune cells. Beyond cancer, these discoveries can impact our capacity to fight infections and other diseases.
Please share our share vision of improving human health through supporting excellence in medical research.
If you would prefer to spread your gift over multiple years, make it through a PAF or other giving vehicle or by EFT, please contact David Bond on 0415 776 410 who will be able to assist with the arrangements.
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Melanoma is the most common cancer in Australians under 40.
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Men are 50% more likely to die of melanoma.
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Up to 50% of Melanoma patients do not respond to treatment or find that it only works for a limited time before the cancer returns.
Centenary Institute scientists have discovered that genes on the X chromosome may be the key to the improved survival rates of females with melanoma compared to their male counterparts.
Dr Jess Tiffen and her team in The Centre for Cancer Innovations at the Centenary Institute are advancing epigenetics research to deliver life-saving melanoma treatments.
The impact that you can make today will improve the outcomes for melanoma patients, perhaps even for someone close to you. Our cumulative philanthropic support is limitless and life-saving.
You can drive discovery and advance knowledge.
With your help, the discoveries that Dr Tiffen and her team make will be progressed to inform new attempts at educating immune cells. Beyond cancer, these discoveries can impact our capacity to fight infections and other diseases.
Should you wish to include a gift in your will to Centenary Institute, we would also welcome the opportunity to discuss this with you.
Should you wish to direct your gift to a different area of Centenary’s research we would welcome the opportunity to discuss this with you. We can assist in ensuring your personal wishes are considered and enable your gift to be allocated.