Professor Matt Dun never thought he’d be a cancer researcher. He started his career in the navy and finished his high school certificate as an adult at night school, before studying to become a biomedical scientist.
But in 2018, his two-year-old daughter Josephine was diagnosed with a rare, deadly brain cancer called diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG).
The tragic news led Professor Dun to become an expert in DIPG. Josephine was the first child in the world to be given the new therapies he pioneered, which slowed the tumour’s growth and gave her another year of life.
She sadly passed away in December 2019, 22 months after her diagnosis.
Professor Dun joined Sally Sara on ABC Radio National to share his personal story and life-changing research.
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