Making Waves - Robert Connor Dawes Foundation

LIz Dawes speaks to David Hansen about his involvement in Connor's Run and reminisce about how it all started, the fun times and some of the more stressful times.

As we celebrate 10 years of Connors Run and the Robert Connor Dawes Foundation Liz speaks with Marketing genius Marek Birchley who has been with us since the start, and played a huge role in creating a fun but meaningful brand and marketing strategy to maximise fundraising to support brain matters and beat the number one cancer killer of young people.

Liz talks with Dr Kim Wark, an experienced Researcher and Research Manager, who now is our new Research Manager for the RCD Foundation. Liz discusses with Kim all the exciting projects the foundation is currently supporting and the RCD research strategy for the next 5 years.

Liz speaks with Dr. Michael Prados, Professor of Neurological Surgery and Director of Translational Research in Neuro-Oncology at UCSF. In 2012 he created Pacific Paediatric Neuro-Oncology Consortium (PNOC) , a multi institutional consortium of 15 major academic centres across the US and now internationally, including Australia.

Liz interviews Dr. Adam Resnick from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), where he is the Director of Data Driven Discovery in Biomedicine. Liz talks to Adam in a fascinating discussion about data sharing, international collaboration and what motivates one of the world’s best brains working on the brain.

Dr. Jason Cain from the Hudson Institute of Medical Research sits down with Liz to talk about his work, and latest developments in discovery research and clinical trials.

Dr. Misty Jenkins is the Laboratory Head, Division of Immunology, at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. Liz speaks with Misty about her work that we are supporting, the importance of collaboration and the exciting new developments that her and her team are working on.

Liz talks with Dr. Jordan Hansford, a clinical oncologist specialising in children with brain cancer who works at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. Liz discusses with Jordan the work of his that we are supporting and navigating his way through COVID-19.