DR DUCHATEL EDUCATES SUPPORTERS OF DIPG RESEARCH July 2019 saw Dr Ryan Duchatel, post-doctoral researcher of Dr Dun’s laboratory, facilitate educational sessions for members of a community fundraising group touched by the story of the Dun family, their world rocked by 2-year-old Josephine’s DIPG diagnosis in February 2018. With a dinner
Dr Matt Dun awarded $600,000 investigators grant for research into DIPG Hunter biologist Dr Matt Dun has been awarded $627,250 to continue his research into the deadly form of brain stem cancer that afflicts his own four-year-old daughter, Josephine. Dr Dun is in a race against time to find a cure for the aggressive
Run DIPG is excited to announce that Dr Matt Dun, as part of solution-based research at Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI)has been awarded an Investigator Grant, receiving $627,250 in the latest round of National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funding. Dr Dun and his team are collaborating with all major children’s hospitals
HUNTER cancer researcher Dr Matthew Dun has dedicated his first research paper on the deadly brain cancer, DIPG, to the fundraising "family" that made it all possible. Dr Dun has been in a race against time to find a cure for diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) since his own daughter, four-year-old Josephine, was diagnosed
Cancer researcher dad fighting for a cure to save his dying daughter Content by Sunrise - Channel 7 - Edwina Bartholomew An Australian leukemia researcher is racing against the clock to stop his young daughter from succumbing to an incurable form of brain cancer. Doctor Mat Dun and his GP wife were devastated
Content by National Nine News - Sydney Bureau - Gabriella Rogers https://twitter.com/9NewsSyd/status/1139215861934411781 An Australian leukaemia researcher is in the battle of his life to stop his young daughter from succumbing to an incurable form of brain cancer. Dr Matt Dun has spent most of his professional life finding new treatments for leukaemia. But, when his
Courtesy of the Newcastle Herald First came the rucks, the mauls, the scrums, the tackles and the fierce contests between the best in the Newcastle and Hunter Rugby Union premier competition. Then, last year, came the diagnosis of an opponent's daughter with a brain stem cancer called Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG). Now, this weekend comes the teaming
A CANCER researcher’s heartbreaking quest to find a treatment for his daughter’s incurable brain cancer has led to an outpouring of donations. Since The Sunday Telegraph revealed Dr Matt Dun’s personal crusade last Sunday, more than $60,000 has been donated to his Run DIPG Gofundme account. The Newcastle-based cancer researcher is self-funding a world-first
IT IS hard to believe something so stunning can be so very deadly, but these images taken by Hunter medical researchers offer an intimate look at a “ferocious” brain cancer that almost exclusively affects children. A team of University of Newcastle and HMRI researchers have begun to dig deeper into a brain stem cancer called diffuse
IF Dr Matt Dun could spend every last cent he had on time, he would buy more. Instead, he is running in a race against it to find the missing pieces of the puzzle that could save children like his own little girl, Josephine. The University of Newcastle and HMRI biologist has spent almost a decade
