Evie Whipps DIPG Research Fellowship

Meet Evie Whipps, our beautiful 11 year old girl, who died on the 22nd of January this year of the deadliest childhood brain cancer there is, DIPG.

A once happy, healthy and fit 10 year old, DIPG slowly took away Evie's ability to see, hear, walk, move and eat, until she eventually died trapped fully conscious inside her failing body.

On diagnosis day, Valentines Day 2023, we were told that there was no treatment and no cure for the cancer slowly infiltrating her brainstem. It would slowly shut off her bodily functions until her breathing and heart would stop, but not before suffering through unimaginable pain.

There is so much research going into DIPG but our government does not fund nearly enough to make a difference, so we decided to take this into our own hands.

We have had the most amazing support from the beautiful people of this country for our family, and now we reach out once more to help fund real life changes for future children diagnosed with DIPG.

It is unacceptable to think that a child that you have, or that you know, will be diagnosed with this horrendous cancer without having any hope.

We want to fund a research fellowship for a scientist who will work to create treatments for our kids, so that they might eventually have hope.

The donation would cover the cost to provide salary to a Postdoctoral Research Fellow within the Cancer Signalling Research Group at University of Newcastle.

The Fellow would be an 'academic' staff member who has completed a PhD (3-4 years) in their area of expertise, as well as their undergraduate degree.

We aim to take the survival rate for DIPG from 0%, to 1%. And then move up from there!

Evie wanted to be many things in life, all of them in healthcare. So we will make her legacy one that will save the lives of others the same way she would have if she hadn't suffered with this terrible disease.