Research news

Thanks to you, we're seed-funding survivorship

01/09/2025

This is how your generosity helped pave the way for a Federally- funded post-treatment program for childhood, adolescent and young adult cancer survivors.

These familiar Fellows have some updates!

01/09/2025

Your continued support of The Kids’ Cancer Project has helped us commit over $76 million to research in the last 30 years.

An irregular coincidence in a regular giving town

01/09/2025

Stuart has been building his impact with us for years. He didn’t know that his neighbour was too!

Your Impact 2025

01/09/2025

Read how your support has helped save lives and is pushing kids' cancer research further than ever before.

WOTSO get moving ahead of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

28/08/2025

2025 is set to be the biggest year ever in WOTSO’s long association with the Better Challenge, the major fundraiser for The Kids' Cancer Project, which supports vital scientific research into better treatments for children with cancer.

The plumbers: How The Kids’ Cancer Project helps research flow freely

26/08/2025

The translational research pipeline may sound like a complicated concept, but it's essential in taking ideas from a lab into the everyday lives of kids with cancer.

The Kids’ Cancer Project named official Charity Partner of Sydney Lunar Festival 

20/08/2025

The Kids’ Cancer Project is delighted to confirm it has been named as the official charity partner of the City of Sydney’s Sydney Lunar Festival, giving the charity a lofty platform at high profile events to advocate for childhood cancer research. 

Once a writer, now a coordinator, Clare’s inspiring the next chapter of students

28/07/2025

Finding a team coordinator who was once a writer for Write a Book in a Day is rare. To have found one that co-authored a Best Book is even rarer.

Ku-Ring Gai’s Crazy impact on childhood cancer research

25/07/2025

2025 will mark ten years of fundraising for The Kids’ Cancer Project by the Ku Ring Gai Netball Association on Crazy Hair and Sock Day.

Sarcoma Awareness Month: Our impact, our projects and our focus for the future

24/07/2025

As part of Sarcoma Awareness Month, we’ve shone a light on several past projects we’ve funded in a bid to find more effective, less harmful treatments for kids with sarcoma.

Swanky Socks and The Kids’ Cancer Project: Stitching together a storied partnership

22/07/2025

The Kids’ Cancer Project’s infamous socks are made by none other than the Sydney-based Swanky Socks.

How digital technologies will assist in tending to kids with cancer

21/07/2025

Col Reynolds Fellow, Dr Karin Plummer, has had an editorial article published within the Journal of Pediatric Nursing, detailing her research and the utilisation of digital technology in delivering safer, more effective care for kids with cancer.