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273: 921: 301: 287: 254:, who was Australia's first professor of children's health, and Sir John Fulton. The foundation raised a lot of money from early telethons in Australia. Dods eventually gave up his teaching role at the University of Sydney to work with the foundation. In 1968 one of the foundations supporters, 352:
Bryan, Tracy M.; Englezou, Anna; Dalla-Pozza, Luciano; Dunham, Melissa A.; Reddel, Roger R. (1997). "Evidence for an alternative mechanism for maintaining telomere length in human tumors and tumor-derived cell lines".
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that conducts research into children's genetic diseases. As of 2019, current research is focused on
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who was a writer, died and she left her estate of £300,000 to the foundation.
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The director of the foundation is "the Lorimer Dods Professor".
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Much of CMRI's cancer research focuses on telomeres (including
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Medical research
Genetic research
Cancer
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Australia
33°48′05″S 150°59′32″E / 33.80139°S 150.99222°E / -33.80139; 150.99222
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Westmead
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University of Sydney
The Children's Hospital at Westmead
cmri.org.au
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Westmead
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