The Common Good

Join our team of researchers, volunteers and everyday people.

You’ll be notified when the time you give is being used by researchers, and kept in the loop so you can
see how your contribution is making a real difference.

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  Cycle of Giving goes BIG in 2020

  We are excited to share with you a BIG change to the Cycle of Giving. Updated with event postponement news due to COVID-19 restrictions.

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  Intensive Care Cocoon to improve ICU environment in world first

  The patient’s experience will be at the centre of an innovative bed space design, or ‘Cocoon’, that infuses technology and personalised medicine with best practice architectural and engineering solutions.

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  The Alumni for The Common Good

  We believe that the hard work of researchers deserves to be recognised and it’s why we recently launched an Alumni for The Common Good.

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  Sterling's Dream–You can take the fight to dementia

  You can help turn the tide and stop dementia in its tracks, so that future generations never have to suffer the heartache of the long goodbye. That’s Sterling’s Dream.

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  Track your impact!

  Now when you back a research team, we’ll send you a notification when your Time is being used! Every $44 means a real hour of time for our research teams...

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  Research Funded: Congratulations, Dr Prasadam!

  Congratulations to Dr Indira Prasadam, who has been awarded a prestigious grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). She now has the certainty to continue her ground...

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  Gin with a Twist Fundraiser | Sat 31 August

  Delight in some of Australia's finest gins and help raise vital funds for silicosis research as we welcome in spring at the Gin with a Twist event.

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  Could a foot selfie save your life?

  Diabetic foot disease is a silent but major epidemic. Researchers are developing a mobile app to help people care for diabetic foot ulcers at home.

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  Is there a best before date for blood?

  With 1 in every 3 Australians needing a blood transfusion in their lifetime, Monica Ng wants to reduce the risks and complications associated with the transfusion procedure. Having identified evidence that the period of time packed red blood cells are stored can be associated with poor clinical outcomes, Monica has set out to discover exactly what storage and the act of transfusion itself is doing to blood, and how that is translating in patients.

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