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The charitable arm of the PA Hospital and Metro South Health. Your place to give.

02/12/2025

Meet PA Hospital clinician Associate Professor Lachlan McDowell.

Thanks to grateful patients and their families who chose to thank the PA for their care by donating to the Foundation, we recently awarded A/Prof McDowell with a grant to fund his research project in head and neck cancer.

Based in the PA's Radiation Oncology Department A/Prof McDowell will lead the project entitled; CO-Designing the Future of Innovative HeaD and NEck CaNCEr Survivorship: A Translational and Interdisciplinary Model for Follow-Up Care.

01/12/2025

It's TIME! Time to make sure no one misses out on celebrating Christmas, especially those in Hospital.

Our annual Christmas Gift Appeal where we raise funds to bring the spirit of Christmas to every single patient at the PA on Christmas Day is underway. By choosing the Foundation as your place to give this Christmas you'll be helping our CEO Damian pop up and bring the festive season to those who are recovering or undergoing treatment at the PA over Christmas.

A $25 donation helps us buy a gift for a patient. Give today if you can because Christmas should come to everyone.

Donate: https://www.pafoundation.org.au/giftappeal

29/11/2025

Our lottery supporting medical research at the PA Hospital campus closes on 4 December. Tickets are just $5 and you could win $1000 just in time for Christmas. Enter here: www.pafoundation.org.au/researchlottery

P.S You can also make a tax deductible donation while you're purchasing tickets.

28/11/2025

Our lottery supporting medical research at the PA closes in just a few days time on December 4. Tickets are just $5 and you could win $1000 just in time for Christmas.

Enter here: https://www.pafoundation.org.au/researchlottery

27/11/2025

Say hello to Dr Laurie McLaughlin.

Dr McLaughlin is a clinician at the PA Hospital's Neurology Department and thanks to our fabulous supporters who choose us as their place to give we are proud to have awarded her a Novice Researcher Grant for her research project on and autoimmune neuromuscular disease called Myasthenia Gravis. Laurie's project is entitled; Real-world Efficacy of Rituximab in patients with Myasthenia Gravis using MGBase.

We can't do what we do at the PA, in funding important research like Dr McLaughlin's, without the kind and generous people who donate to our work.

26/11/2025

Student led generosity powering progress in breast cancer research!

We recently had the chance to sit down with Thérèse Eddy, Alumni Relations Manager & King’s in Pink Founder and Patron about King's College, The University of Queensland's partnership with the Foundation through our breast cancer initiative Project Pink

The students, staff and alumni of the college have now raised close over $48,000 for breast cancer research through their annual King's In Pink Fun Run.

Read the Q and A in the latest in our Friends of the Foundation series here: https://www.pafoundation.org.au/blog/student-generosity-powering-research

25/11/2025

No, you're not looking at an image from a space telescope, or a weird AI created bubble. What you're looking at is cancer organoid, developed in the lab by researcher Dr Charlie Bidgood. Organoids are developed by researchers using tissue samples from PA Hospital cancer patients, and grown in a lab so they can see how the patient's cancer may react or respond to certain treatments.

As scary as cancer is, the images produced by researchers are kind of cool in an artistic way.

24/11/2025

Meet Dr Kimberley Budgen, one of two recipients of our 2026 Novice Researcher Grants which were announced earlier this month.

Thanks to our amazing donors and supporters we've provided funding to Dr Budgen for her project entitled; Investigating the feasibility of pre-operative radiosurgery to intact brain metastases using Gamma Knife, in 1 versus 3 fractions.

Dr Budgen is a clinician based in the PA Hospital's Radiation Oncology Department and we are so very proud to be funding this project thanks to those who choose us as their place to give.

22/11/2025

There are still plenty of tickets available in our current medical research lottery. You can win $1000 and tickets are just $5 each. best of all every ticket purchased and donation made helps advance medical research into cancer and other serious diseases. Here's how to enter and win:
1. follow us here on Facebook as we announce winners here.
2. Visit our website pafoundation.org.au and head to the support PA section and click on the lottery tile. Or simple click here https://www.pafoundation.org.au/researchlottery
3. Buy some tickets.
4. Cross your fingers and wait for us to call you to let you know you've won the cash.

Simples.

21/11/2025

Thanks to funding from our incredible donors and supporters that was put toward a matching grant from Tour de Cure, Professor Rik Thompson has been able to advance a triple negative breast cancer study to the point where he has now received mainstream funding from the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF).

More on Rik's research projects in breast cancer here: https://www.pafoundation.org.au/blog/foundation-funding-pivotal-to-progress

20/11/2025

Back to back!

Bernadette Cashman and Michael Devlin have won our annual Smiddy Fun Run for the second straight year.

The run honours the life of Physiotherapist Adam Smiddy, and this year was five laps around the Translational Research Institute building on the PA Hospital campus.

More than 100 runners and walkers were up bright and early for the 5k run, which is made possible thanks to the support of our major sponsor Port of Brisbane.

Best of all more than $11,000 was raised through the event this year, with the funds going towards vital melanoma and skin cancer research in Adam's name.

Results:

Fastest Male Runner – Michael Devlin 18.52

Fastest Female Runner – Bernadette Cashman 22.25

Fastest Male Physio – Hayden Cook 20.57

Fastest Female Physio – Maddy Clark 24.12

Highest Fundraiser – Michael Devlin, raising $565

18/11/2025

🥳 Great news for patients at the PA!

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