Professor Matt Dun, whose work is focused on improving the survival of patients diagnosed with the world’s deadliest and most aggressive form of paediatric cancer, is the Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR) Medallist for 2024.
In 2018, Professor Dun’s research took a deeply personal turn when his two-year-old daughter Josephine was diagnosed with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) – an incurable childhood brain cancer.
Professor Dun, a paediatric leukaemia research specialist at the University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute,
is the Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR) Medallist for 2024.
He began researching DIPG [diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma], after his daughter Josephine was diagnosed with the disease in 2018, shortly before she turned three.
