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Authored by Beth Morrison, RN Newro Foundation and Dr Richard Kahler   Developments for Spinal Surgery Outcomes The Newro Foundation, in conjunction with the surgeons at BrizBra… Read More »

This year we continue with our current clinical trials, Assessment of T Cell response to Human Cytomegalovirus and Killer T Cell Therapy for Glioblastoma. While we continue to recruit for the Assessment of T Cell response to Human Cytomegalovirus, we will begin collating and analyzing the information currently collected from the Killer T Ce… Read More »

Professor David Walker has co-authored a research paper detailing the discovery of a protein, EphA3, that is found in about half of all glioblastoma multiforme tumours. It is believed the protein plays a role in maintaining cells which are in a tumourgenic state. They have found that binding the antibody, known as IIIA4 and discovered by… Read More »

“In 1992 I was diagnosed with a brain tumour. I was 33 years old and playing AFL in Bundaberg when I experienced a mini stroke during a game. At the time I thought it was just a knock to the head, so I played on. A week later at train… Read More »

The Cooperative Trials Group for Neuro-Oncology (COGNO) conference was held on  Aug 7-9th 2012 and a review panel awarded two prizes of $500 each (courtesy of Brainlab) for the two best abstracts.  The research done by Dr Gail Robinson, Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland, in collaboration with Newro Foundation on… Read More »

“Today was a sad day as myself and Nurse Practitioner Vivien Biggs, along with the nursing staff from the Wesley Hospital, attended the funeral of one of our patients that we have been treating over a number of years.   Read More »