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15 Dr Jose receives his first large project grant to test the new method of chemotherapy delivery in animal models of glioblastoma. Drs Park and Lee receive a large project grant to use both live human brain slices and brain cell cultures to identify the causes of radiation damage in the human brain during cancer treatment. Drs Jose andPark recruit a PhD student (Yuge Liu) towork on the development of targeted therapy for glioblastoma. On 19September theUniversity of Auckland officially launches the Centre for BrainResearch Freemasons Neurosurgical ResearchUnit.TheNeurological Foundation is proud to have donatedmore than $1.25Mtowards this work to improve outcomes for patients undergoing surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatment for brain cancer. “This could potentially revolutionise glioblastoma treatment, leading to improved patient outcomes.” DrElizabethCooper,whowas supervisedbyDrParkand co-supervisedbyDrJoseforherPhD 2021 $253,257 from NF 2023 $430,495 from NF Years ahead “There was nothing out there to guide us – we had to invent how to do this. It’s exciting because we’re now putting what we found into practice.” Dr Thomas Park