Australian Prostate Cancer Research is a new independent entity that is coordinating & funding research into prostate cancer at a national level. It will take research findings to the greater community, and for the first time, bring together leaders in all related fields of prostate cancer research and treatment as a multi-disciplinary team to target all issues relating to prostate cancer.
Q: What is the main reason for creating APCR?
A: There are a number of small, independent research groups and centres in Australia that compete for short-term grants, but there is no national consolidated research group that funds and administers research and actively develops ways to take this research to end users.
Q: What will APCR be accountable for?
A: Discovery, Management, Collaboration and Education.
Q: What makes APCR different to other organisations?
A: APCR is focusing on the whole journey of prostate cancer from a patient perspective, not just isolated research projects.
Q: What will APCR do, that no-one else does?
A: APCR will take research from ‘bench to bedside’ by not only attracting the best industry driven research projects in the country, but also putting in place facility-based, online and outreach delivery programs.
Q: Why don’t we have the word “centre” involved in the name?
A: APCR is not restricted to one site, it will employ and work in partnership with people across many different sites and overseas to coordinate research inputs and outputs; not limiting this to isolated centres or projects.