Sony Foundation – You can innovate award
Sony Foundation – You can innovate award
‘You Can’ is a youth cancer program set up by Sony Foundation Australia in 2010. Its aim is to fund specialised youth cancer centres and services around Australia to address the current gap in the healthcare system. Currently, young Australians with cancer are a ‘forgotten generation’ who are falling through the gaps of our medical system. Too old for children’s hospitals yet too young to be placed in adult wards these young patients are lost in the system. Young people aged between 15 and 25 have significantly poorer survival rates than children and older adults due to a lack of access to age appropriate care.
With a passion to help youth cancer patients, the Sony Foundation is supporting young researchers taking on ground-breaking ideas & innovations to help treat or cure cancer. The ‘You Can Innovate Awards’ invite young researchers (students & early-career) across universities, research institutes & hospitals to come up with a research project, idea or technology to improve cancer patients prospects or livelihood, particularly those patients suffering in their youth.
Total award amount: $100,000
Applications close: 10th March 2017
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