Stories • Cancer Research Trust NZ

Gabi Dachs

“Too many people I love and care for have died of cancer or trodden the path of a long, hard cancer journey,” says Dr Gabi Dachs, Research Associate Professor at the University of Otago Christchurch campus. “I’m trying to do good research to help cancer patients live longer and better with cancer,” she says as she focuses her investigations on Vitamin C and cancer survival.
Elaine Rogers

Elaine Rogers was awarded the Cancer Research Trust Nursing Fellowship in 2013. This allowed her the opportunity to investigate cancer cachexia. The award not only allowed her to complete that study but also and assisted in setting up her professional nursing research career in studying other palliative symptoms.
Andrew Das

“Due to recent advances in technology, researchers can now look at the genetic mutations that lead to cancer in more detail than ever before,” he says as he focuses his investigations on developing new treatments for acute myeloid leukaemia, a particularly aggressive form of blood cancer.
Maryanne Offner

Cancer Research Trust NZ has generously supported me through a PG Diploma in Health Sciences and now Masters of Advanced nursing.
Michael Jameson

We’re looking for new uses for everyday medicines to ease troublesome side effects of chemotherapy and radiation therapy has the potential to save lives and dollars.
Aniruddah Chatterjee

A grant from Cancer Research Trust NZ provided the springboard we needed to contribute to a global effort to unlock the secrets behind resistance to immunotherapy.
Rod Dunbar

Immune therapy is changing the way we treat cancer – and the way we think about cancer.
Roslyn Kemp

Cancer Research Trust New Zealand has supported Dr Kemp’s research, which has mainly focused on colorectal cancer, for many years to identify and understand immune responses to offer patients better diagnoses, prognoses and treatment.
Francis Hunter

Tackling the enormous burden of suffering caused by cancer is one of the greatest challenges of our generation
Rob Weinkove

Cancer Research Trust has helped me establish a successful research and clinical career at the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research and at Wellington Blood & Cancer Centre.