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Children’s Cancer CoLab

The Children’s Cancer Foundation created the Victorian Paediatric Cancer Consortium (VPCC) in 2021, which has since rebranded as the Children’s Cancer CoLab (CCCoLab).

The CCCoLab brings together leading researchers, academic and clinical organisations to make things better for children and adolescents with cancer.

Children’s Cancer CoLab Partners

Before the creation of the CCCoLab, Victoria’s top-tier hospitals, universities, and research institutes dedicated to paediatric cancer operated independently without a formal alliance to address their common objective.

The CCCoLab has revolutionized the fight against childhood cancers in Victoria by establishing a central hub that promotes collaboration among diverse disciplines statewide. This approach encourages research breakthroughs, fosters innovation, provides essential training, and ensures the delivery of best-practice clinical care.

Creating a paediatric ecosystem, the CCCoLab has unified the paediatric research and clinical community to leverage existing capabilities and improve outcomes for children and their families. It presents the most ground-breaking opportunity for childhood cancer that Victoria has ever seen.

Now, thanks to the CCCoLab, the best minds in Victoria’s medical research community have a new platform through which to share and benefit from each other’s knowledge.

Our findings will enable other researchers in the childhood cancer community to accelerate their own research and discoveries.
Dr Jason Cain
The Children’s Cancer CoLab aims to:
Develop and advance new and more precise treatments for childhood cancer.
Accelerate the participation of children with cancer in clinical trials in Victoria.
Improve survivorship and long-term health for children undergoing cancer treatment.
Leverage the diverse expertise of Victorian researchers and clinicians to catalyse the translation of paediatric cancer research from bench to bedside.

In the 2023 budget, the State of Victoria committed $35 million to the work of the Children’s Cancer CoLab, conditional upon the Children’s Cancer Foundation contributing a further $10 million.

The next big challenge for the Foundation lies in raising the $10 million to continue this vital work.

Looking ahead, the combined $45 million will be directed towards:
Support Next-Generation Therapies for hard-to-treat childhood cancers to improve survival outcomes for young patients
Fund Safer Therapies that minimise cancer treatment-related toxicities to improve long-term quality of life for young patients
Develop and implement Survivorship and Living Well interventions that reduce the long-term impacts of cancer treatments on children’s growth, development and overall health
Integration of Innovation Accelerators (resources and platforms) to streamline research infrastructure and catalyse multidisciplinary collaboration in world-leading discovery, translational and clinical research
Foster talents in researchers and clinicians to attract and retain the brightest minds to be the Future Leaders in paediatric oncology
Ensure operational excellence in the management of Children’s Cancer CoLab activities
The Children’s Cancer Foundation is committed to raising $10 million over the next 5 years to support the critical work of the CCCoLab – but we need your help.
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Read more about the work of the Children’s Cancer CoLab (CCColab) here.

Help children survive and thrive.