Our Purpose
At Flinders Foundation our purpose is you.
We want you, our community, to live a longer and happier life.
We want you to overcome disease and illness so you can spend more time with the people you love. And while you’re fighting, we want to ease your pain, suffering and concern, and your family’s too.
That’s why every day, our team works to support the leading clinicians and researchers across Flinders Medical Centre and Flinders University to deliver better research, treatment and care and ensure they are equipped with the latest technology, in the best environment.
From cancer and mental health, to neonatal care, and everything in between - we’re working together to prevent, cure and care.
Thanks to enormous support from across the community, answers are being uncovered and significant medical breakthroughs at Flinders are having a global impact.
But there’s still such a long way to go. Help bring us closer to life-saving research and patient care.
Because our purpose is you.
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NEWS
Emergency Department Eye Care Boost
Thousands of patients presenting at Flinders Medical Centre’s Emergency Department (ED) each year with eye problems will now receive improved and faster eye examinations thanks to new equipment purchased with your support.
Emergency Department Eye Care Boost
improved and faster eye examinations thanks to new equipment purchased with your support
Tour De Cure Update 2018
As a surgical registrar in Germany, Dr Anne-Sophie Mehdorn sees the impacts of cancer on patients and their families every day.
Tracking cancer with liquid biopsies
A Flinders Foundation grant is enabling Flinders researchers to trial a new liquid biopsy sample in the hope it will give them a head start in tracking and monitoring tumours.
Tracking cancer with liquid biopsies
Flinders researchers are trying to get a head start in tracking and monitoring tumours.
Cancer literacy for new migrants
In what is believed to be an Australian first, an innovative Flinders research project will see migrants enrolled in English as a Second Language (ESL) classes receive cancer awareness and prevention messaging in tandem with English language instruction, thanks to a Flinders Foundation seeding grant.
Cancer literacy for new migrants
Innovative program to Improve cancer literacy, prevention and early detection.
Family indebted to life-saving unit
Tasia Douvos was the first ever liver transplant recipient in South Australia. Her family have never forgotten the staff and specialists at Flinders who saved her life.
Family indebted to life-saving unit
25 years ago Tasia Douvos received the first ever liver transplant in South Australia.
New prostate cancer probes
Flinders Foundation raised $70,000 during its June 2017 Prostate Cancer Appeal to purchase two endocavity bi-plane transducer probes for the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network Urology Service.
Bringing the Christmas magic to sick kids
Hospital is the last place you would choose to spend Christmas, particularly when you’re a kid. But thanks to generous support from the community, there were plenty of smiles on the faces of sick kids at Flinders Medical Centre and Noarlunga Hospital on Christmas Day.
Bringing the Christmas magic to sick kids
Find out about the Flinders Foundation's Christmas Giving Tree Program.
Revolutionary robot targets Zika virus cure
Helping researchers to find potential treatments to protect millions of unborn babies from Zika Virus.
Revolutionary robot targets Zika virus cure
Finding potential treatments for the Zika virus
Ride Like Crazy goes out on a high
A decade-long cycling event which raised an incredible $1.7million for brain cancer research has gone out on a high. More than 1400 cyclists pulled on the lycra on Sunday, January 15 for the tenth and final Lightsview Ride Like Crazy community cycling event.
Ride Like Crazy goes out on a high
A decade-long cycling event has raised an incredible $1.7million for cancer research.
Ground breaking research for MND
Ground breaking, world-first research out of Flinders University has uncovered the first biomarker for motor neurone disease (MND) progression - a giant step for developing better treatments, or even a cure, for the disease.
Ground breaking research for MND
Ground breaking, world-first research out of Flinders University for MND