CLCRF Annual Report 2019
Telethon Kids Institute Once again we are proud to acknowledge the wonderfully cooperative working relationship we enjoy with the Telethon Kids Institute and, in particular, extend our thanks and appreciation to Professor Jonathan Carapetis AM, the Institute’s Director, and Tim McInnis, Head of Development. Regrettably, in October 2019, Tim McInnis moved on to new challenges at Curtin University. Tim was a great advocate of partnering relationships and was instrumental in furthering the relationship between CLCRF and TKI. Accordingly, we wish Tim our very best, in his new venture.
Telethon Trust Our agreement with the Telethon Trust to be a MILLION DOLLAR PARTNER commenced in 2017 and subject to the terms of the agreement will conclude on the 31st December 2019. We recently made our third million-dollar contribution to Telethon which as a result triggered in the first two years a further $250K and $500K research project funding which was mutually agreed to by CLCRF and TKI. It should be noted that our overall brief is to support research into all forms of childhood cancers, our focus over the past 39 years has been primarily leukaemia, then brain tumours and other rare cancers. With the additional $500K triggered by our partnership with Telethon we have been able to expand our research endeavours to continue paediatric brain cancer research as well as new funding for paediatric sarcoma research. I would like to clarify to our own very generous and loyal donors that nothing has altered in our current research funding arrangements as we already contribute around $1M annually to research projects undertaken at the Telethon Kids Institute and it is these funds that represent the “Million Dollar Partnership”.
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