Fremantle Rotary

5 days ago

It’s so good to know that we are able to help with this important workWorld Cancer Day held on 4th February, and 2024’s theme is to Close the Care Gap.

In December 2023, Spinnaker Health Research Foundation was proud to award 2024 Grant recipient – Dr Collin Chin, based out of Rockingham General Hospital, for his project on an emerging new treatment for blood cancers called CAR T-cell therapy.

Approximately 2134 West Australians are diagnosed with blood cancer annually, with 655 patients expected to lose their lives. Immune effector cell (IEC) therapies such as chimaeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy and bispecific antibodies are the newest weapon against the commonest blood cancer, lymphoma, and can cure 1 in 2 patients who would have died with standard treatments.

Thank you to Fremantle Rotary and Rotary Club of Attadale for your generous donation and investment into cancer research in WA.

Dr Chin’s project uses a technology called flow cytometry to study individual blood cells to understand how and why the immune cells get tired. This will help develop new ideas on how to improve these treatments, like recharging the immune system or finding different ways to give the treatment. Thanks to the Rotary clubs of Fremantle and Attadale’s generous donation, hundreds of patients with blood cancer in WA are set to benefit.

The rotary clubs donation allows to kickstart this project and potentially change how IEC therapies are used in Australia and globally. Dr Chin’s goal is to see as many patients as possible with blood cancer become cancer-free, and the Rotary clubs of Fremantle and Attadale, are now part of this journey. Your contribution to cancer research in WA lays the foundation for this vision to take place, and lays the path for future generations of medical researchers in the South Metropolitan Health Service.

Spinnaker HRF cannot wait to hear about the impact and health outcomes that Dr Chin’s team will set out to achieve.

Pictured: Kim Passmore (Left) and Dr Shane Gangatharan (Right) accepting award on behalf of Dr Collin Chin

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Fremantle Rotary is in Western Australia.

4 weeks ago

Fremantle Rotary welcomed in our new President Graeme last night . We thanked Paul for his last two years of projects, fun and friendship as president . New board pictured with Grahame and Paul ... See MoreSee Less

Fremantle Rotary

2 months ago

Combined Meeting with Attadale - Celebration of the Rotary Charity Golf Days.
The Rotary Clubs of Attadale and Fremantle celebrated the history and amazing achievements of their ongoing annual Rotary Charity Golf Day, with a combined meeting at Royal Fremantle Golf Club.
It was an opportunity to share how it all began, and where it has come over the years.
Since 2012 we have raised an amazing $580 525 for our two beneficiaries
Colin McCulloch did a wonderful job as Master of Ceremonies, enabling the history to unfold as well as how it all happens, accompanied by a fabulous slide show.
Each year the Rotary Club of Attadale donate their profits from the day to Care Cure Support (for Motor Neurone Disease) and the Rotary Club of Fremantle, donate their profits from the day to the Spinnaker Health Research Foundation.
We were delighted that Mark and David Whiteman for Care Cure Support and CEO Dana Wallace- Campbell of Spinnaker Health Research Foundation were there to accept the cheques.
It was very interesting to hear from them, how they use the money we donate each year. #infro#fremantlestory #freomassive ... See MoreSee Less