There are, of course, many organisations devoted to cancer and asthma research in Australia but a special feature of the Picchi Brothers Foundation is that the Board of Management is honorary and has the objective of only using Foundation income and not Foundation capital for research.
Limbs4Life distributes A Helping Hand DVD
to amputee patients
Limbs4Life is a not for profit organisation based in Melbourne, providing free information and support to amputees and their family members. The hospital peer support program was established to provide new amputees with access to trained volunteers who have experienced a similar amputation.
As cancer is one of the major causes of amputation in Australia today, A Helping Hand DVD was seen as an important resource to add to patient information packs for those who have experienced limb loss due to cancer.
View the article 
featuring The Picchi Brothers Foundation
in the official Limbs4Life magazine Amplified on page 5
For more information on Limbs4Life
visit their website www.limbs4life.com
The University of Melbourne gives thanks
Pictured Above - The University of Melbourne's Professor Glenn Bowes with the Foundations manager Mr Joseph Lukaitis.
In 2006 the foundation made a financial grant of $187,500 to Dr Stephen Turner and Professor Dale Godfrey in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, towards the purchase of a Fluorescent Activated Cell Sorter. This sophisticated instrument has greatly assisted their research on immunity to infections like influenza.
In December last year the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences held a function to thank the foundation for their generous grant.
>> Read the full article published by The University of Melbourne
A Helping Hand
A Helping Hand' interactive DVD resource has been designed to help you get the right information - When you want it and where you want it, all in your own time. It was produced with funds generously donated by the Picchi Brothers Foundation.
All content has been developed under the guidance of The Cancer Council Victoria, and can be relied upon to give an accurate picture of what to expect, where to go for help and ways you and your family and friends can best deal with the situation. With cancer survival rates increasing yearly, and Australian clinical, diagnostics, healthcare and research teams that rank as the best in the world, there is always someone close to reach out and give you A HELPING HAND.
>> View the DVD launch photo gallery
>> www.helpingonline.com
Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Following a recent visit to the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Parkville by Joseph Lukaitis, Professor Terry Nolan and Christine Damain who met with Ms Margaret Brumby the General Manager of the Institute, we are now awaiting further information in relation to a possible grant to the Institute. In particular, we are looking into the Institute's research into the connection between genetics and asthma.
Project Health 2000
In recent history The Foundation has supported research with a grant of $90,000.00 to Project Health 2000 under the auspices of the Cancer Council of Victoria. The coordinator of the project is Professor Graham Giles, the Director of the Cancer Epidemiology Centre at the Cancer Council of Victoria.
The Foundation looks at funding traditional research and also wishes to develop some lateral thinking so as to approach these important medical problems in other ways in the quest to improve the health of all of us.
