Transforming childhood cancer research
We’re transforming how childhood cancer research is funded and delivered in Australia — uniting government, philanthropy, researchers, clinicians, advocates, survivors and families to accelerate breakthrough discoveries and create a future where every child with cancer can survive and thrive.
The people behind our mission
As an independent non-profit, we’ve united many of Australia’s brightest minds in childhood cancer research and innovation. Unlike traditional research funders, we take a bold approach to accomplish what no single organisation can achieve in isolation. Together, we’re delivering real-world, transformative impact for our youngest cancer patients.
Our Experts
Scientific rigour and lived experience guide every funding decision, ensuring the research we support has the potential to create real-world change.
Our Partners
We unite government, philanthropy, researchers, clinicians, advocates, survivors and families, backed by substantial support from our major partners, to accelerate breakthrough discoveries.
Our Major Partners
Our Research Partners
Advancing research through collaboration
For too many Australian children and their families, a cancer diagnosis is devastating, and the research needed to improve their outcomes has been held back by siloed efforts and institutional constraints. Children's Cancer CoLab exists to break down those barriers. As an independent non-profit, we fund research based on scientific merit and real-world impact, because every child who faces cancer deserves to survive and thrive.
Australian children and adolescents are diagnosed with cancer every year
children die every week from cancer
children diagnosed with cancer do not survive
of children who survive cancer have long-term effects from their treatment
potential years of life are lost when a child dies from cancer
new cases of cancer are diagnosed worldwide every year in children and adolescents
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We’re improving outcomes for our youngest cancer patients by accelerating research, innovation and collaboration.