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ANZUP ANNUAL REPORT 2020
AT A GLANCE
Fundraising, Partnerships and Engagement We are grateful to all the individuals, families, volunteers, corporations, workplaces and other organisations who supported us this year, and helped ANZUP reach their goals. The generosity of the community helps us fund worthwhile projects, novel nimble trials, or bridge the gap when government grant funding is not enough to complete our work. With growth of our supporter base and opportunities to raise more funds, the Board made the decision to introduce a new fundraising role. In August 2019, Julijana Trifunovic was employed as Head of Partnerships and Engagement for the organisation. Julijana will be supporting the board’s direction and implementing a fundraising strategy to help grow sustainable, cost effective and regular revenue streams through fundraising.
Community Support The Noel Castan Fellowship ANZUP was delighted to launch the Noel Castan Fellowship at the 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) in Brisbane. The Noel Castan Fellowship was established by Anita Castan, in memory of her husband, who passed away from cancer two decades ago. “I understand the value of supporting clinical trials and take this opportunity to congratulate ANZUP on its many successes to date and its collaborative approach.”
NOEL AND ANITA CASTAN
The aim of the Noel Castan Fellowship is to build ANZUP’s research capacity and increase the translation of information collected from our trials, which will contribute to better understanding of how to optimise patient care.
The Noel Castan Fellowship was awarded to members, Hui-Ming Lin and Kathyrn Schubach. Hui-Ming Lin’s ‘Bioinformatics’ project is an analysis of the lipidomic and cytokine profiles from ANZUP’s ENZAMET study, which may identify novel biomarkers from the enzalutamide response, and provide new therapeutic targets to overcome enzalutamide resistance to improve the outcome of prostate cancer patients. Kathryn Schubach’s ‘Quality of Life’ project will develop new questions in trials, using existing data innovatively enhancing and facilitating collaboration and thereby drawing attention and meaning to ‘the patient experience’ and aligning with the mission of ANZUP’s clinical research to improve outcomes.
Special donations In November 2019 one of ANZUP’s key supporters Gary Morgan (Executive Director) and Michelle Levine (Chief Executive Officer) of Roy Morgan Research, donated $100,000 for ANZUP’s clinical trials research into prostate cancer. Gary and Michelle kindly hosted a dinner presentation for ANZUP to help raise awareness and funds for our clinical trial research. ANZUP Chairman Prof Ian Davis and member researcher Assoc. Prof Louise Emmett informed the group about ANZUP’s latest prostate cancer clinical trial research projects. We are extremely grateful for their on-going support. We are also grateful to Sorbact and Ian Garrow for donating $20,000 to the Below the Belt Fund and launching the Below the Belt Pedalthon Melbourne fundraising with this gift. These pledged funds will be used for a prostate cancer project.
ANZUP BOARD MEMBER LINDA MARTIN, ANZUP CEO MARGARET MCJANNETT, ANZUP CHAIR IAN DAVIS & ANITA CASTAN