Thank You! 

Thanks to the incredible generosity of our community, we’ve now used all our matched giving funds—every dollar has gone twice as far for life-saving research!

We’re incredibly grateful to everyone and a special thank you to our partner, Chubb Life Insurance New Zealand Limited, for matching donations up to $100,000.

There is still time to make a tax deductible donation before the end of the New Zealand tax year and help to make disease a smaller part of our lives. 

My name is Kjesten and I’m the new director of the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research.

I feel very strongly about the importance of creating new, safer, more effective treatments that bring dignity and hope to people’s lives. Whether that’s by offering relief to chronic conditions, preventing diseases from happening in the first place, or by treating otherwise fatal diagnoses, we need these breakthroughs today.

To me this is more than just a job, this is personal. 

Stories like mine and perhaps evens yours are why the Malaghan exists.

Our mission is to create a future with better, safer treatments for all. But we cannot do it without your help. 

In 2021 I lost my son Karl to cancer and along with him went a piece of me that I will never get back. There are no words to describe the pain of losing your child and of watching your remaining child suffer with the loss of her only brother.

The reality is that cancer and cancer treatment can be horrific. That needs to change. Not just for the sake of patients like Karl, but for the family and friends who have to sit by and watch their loved ones suffer.

Medical research is best chance we have to change the outcomes for the too many New Zealandlers affected by cancer and disease. But advancements in medical research – from fundamental discoveries to life-saving treatments – don’t come easily.

Medical research takes not only the bright minds that fill the Malaghan, but patience, persistence and sustained, reliable funding. 

All of us at the Malaghan have a clear vision of a world where diseases are prevented, treated and cured through harnessing the power of the immune system – but only with the support of our community can we make this a reality. How fast we can make breakthroughs happen, is up to incredible people like you backing us.

When you support the Malaghan Institute, you’re not just funding research, you’re giving New Zealanders hope – hope that loved ones like my Karl will have access to better, kinder treatments, that families and friends will have more time together, and that disease will one day become a smaller part of our lives.

Karl's last Christmas

This video shows the potent cancer-killing effects of CAR T-cells.

"If we want to bring new therapies to New Zealand we really need to make sure we have the right support to get them there. 

That means more fundamental research, more data, and – crucially – more financial support to really prove we are on to something."

Dr Olivia Burn

With your help, we can build a healthier, more resilient nation, where no one has to leave New Zealand for life-saving treatment.

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