NRF Brain Cancer Impact Forum 2021

The NRF Brain Cancer Impact Forum was a great success and was held at the University of South Australia on May 25, 2021.

Approximately 50 people attended to hear expert brain cancer researchers, academics and clinicians discuss the latest in brain cancer treatment, research, and wellness information.

Please find a selection of videos of the speakers below.

Please note, more videos will be added in coming days.

Dr Evangeline Mantzioris - Nutrition for a brain cancer diagnosis

Video Part 1

Video Part 2

Prof Marion Eckert - Challenges of capturing quality of life data for peole disgnosed with malignant brain cancer

Dr Ganessan Kichenadasse a Medical Oncologist (Cancer Specialist) with knowledge of current clinical trials

Dr Tessa Gargett - Clinical cell therapy trials for brain cancer

Dr Briony Gliddon - A new approach to deliver drugs to brain tumours

Dr Rebecca Ormsby - SA Neurological Tumour Bank at Flinders University

Dr Lisa Ebert - Developing a new CAR-T cell therapy for glioblastoma

Thank you to our Sponsor

Thank you to our sponsor Dr Jones & Partners Medical Imaging for their support and for providing funding for lunch and coffee/tea to guests.

Dr Jones & Partners believes in demonstrating a strong community and social responsibility. They have a variety of programmes providing support to associated organisations and several programmes where our staff can directly participate. They are a long-term valued sponsor of the NRF and our City to Bay Fun Run event. Please visit: https://drjones.com.au/ for more information.

Thank you to our Event Partners

The NeuroSurgical Research Foundation is proudly partnering with the Centre for Cancer Biology (a partnership between UniSA and SA Pathology), the Brain Tumour Alliance Australia (BTAA), the Adult Brain Cancer Support Association of South Australia (abcsa) and the Adelaide Brain Tumour Support group.