Medical Research Trust
Our guest speaker for International Women’s Day Luncheon is Helen McCabe, Editor-in-Chief of The Australian Women’s Weekly Helen McCabe has a distinguished career as a journalist across a range of newspapers before joining Australia’s biggest selling magazine as Editor-in-chief of The Australian Women’s Weekly. Helen started in Adelaide television and spent almost ten years working [...]
The Chairman of the Clifford Craig Medical Research Trust, Associate Professor Don McTaggart, today announced the successful recipients of medical research grants for 2012. Nine new projects will be funded by the Trust in 2012 with the grants totaling $250,000. Associate Professor McTaggart said the combination of the newly announced grants with the existing research [...]
A perfect spring morning and a new start/finish venue were contributing factors for the record field that participated in this year’s Run for Your Heart fun run. The new “home” at Aurora Stadium proved popular as everyone had the opportunity to run on the hallowed turf as they departed the stadium for the 5 kilometre run/walk.
Most importantly, the event is intended to raise awareness for everyone to undertake regular exercise and lead a healthy lifestyle. The annual event raises money for clinical research into cardiac disease in Northern Tasmania and nearly $4000 was raised this year.
Around 300 people registered for Run for Your Heart and this is the most number of entrants since the event commenced four years ago. Next year, the event is expected to be bigger again as the Trust celebrates its 20th anniversary.
Thank you to everyone involved in the event, especially our sponsors RACT Health Insurance, Vos Constructions, Rae & Partners, The Running Company, Southern Cross Television, Examiner Newspaper, Southern Cross Television LAFM/Chilli and AT&M.
The Clifford Craig Medical Research Trust is named after the late Dr Clifford Craig – surgeon, administrator, radiologist and historian. In 1916 he joined the AIF and was deployed to the Middle East as a private in the Desert Mounted Corps Operating Unit.
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Every donor who chooses to support us does so because he/she has decided to make a donation in support of our medical research work for unique and individual reasons.
The Trust produces a quarterly newsletter with all the latest news on research, events, highlights and upcoming functions. You can read the newsletters online from our PDF archive.
Tasmania's Clifford Craig Medical Research Trust was established in 1991.
It is dedicated to curing disease and improving the quality of life for northern Tasmanians. It locally based; locally focussed and locally administered.