Louisa Gunning is a student at ANU, studying history and maths. She also works as a swimming teacher for children, but Louisa is no ordinary 20 year old university student. She is planning to shave her beautiful head of hair for the second time for cancer – this time to advance research for sarcoma.
The cause is personal – her cousin Naomi Chun lost her husband to rhabdomyosarcoma in January of 2021. Naomi has two young daughters three and six, and despite her remarkable approach to life without her much loved husband Matt, she is left to contemplate each day without the man she married only five short years prior to his sarcoma diagnosis.
The fund set up in his memory, Dr Matthew Fisher Sarcoma Research Fund has raised almost $100,000 for the IL23 sarcoma specific sub study, at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, and this time Louisa will be directing funds to Phase two of this clinical trial.
On behalf of all those living with a sarcoma diagnosis in Australia, we wish to thank Louisa for raising much needed funding for high level sarcoma research in Australia, and raising awareness in an effort to promote early diagnosis of this cancer.
To support Louisa go to https://donorbox.org/in_memory_of_matt
