CCF has placed great importance on creating an environment that is able to support the medical treatment of children with cancer. In order to do so, we have continued to collaborate with our strategic partners by providing funding for various programmes. CCF's contributions over the years... 1997 CCF supported training and research both in the psycho-social and medical fields by: collaborating in a research initiative with the Department of Social Work, Arts Faculty, National University of Singapore providing funding for training of local nursing staff in advance paediatric care sending 2 social workers on overseas training and attachments 2000 CCF organised a psychosocial workshop on childhood cancer in the inaugural SIOP Asia Conference in April 2000 With funding support from CCF, the Pediatric Inpatient Cancer Centre at NUH was established 2001 Two psycho-social research and several evaluation studies were completed 2003 CCF pledged $500,000 to set up a Singapore Cord Blood Bank CCF was co-sponsor for the ASEAN Childhood Cancer Workshop 2004 Launch of the Singapore Cord Blood Bank and Regional Outreach programme, both sponsored by CCF CCF made an in-principle agreement to support the efforts of the National Cancer Centre by sponsoring one of its Research Laboratories to establish new research collaborations into childhood cancers using state of the art technology 2005 CCF collaborated with the Department of Social Work and Department of Psychology in National University of Singapore to conduct research and studies on siblings and caregiver coping with childhood cancer 1st sum of $1million disbursed to National Cancer Centre to establish a CCF Research Programme 2006 CCF pledged $1.2million to KK Women's & Children's Hospital for renovation and building of new bone-marrow transplant room (BMT) at KKH-CCF Children's Cancer Centre CCF collaborated with the Department of Social Work and Psychology, National University of Singapore, to study parents' adjustment to chronic illnesses of their children CCF continued to provide direct support to KK Women's & Children's Hospital and National University Hospital for the development and maintenance of childhood cancer registries/databases as well as research studies 2007 CCF has pledged a further funding of $150,000 per year for 2007 and 2008, to support Singapore Cord Blood Bank's 2nd phase of development through training, development and education activities to increase high quality cord blood units for transplantation CCF's funding to sponsor research assistants made it possible for 2 physicians from Indonesia to train in KK Women's & Children's Hospital CCF sponsored The Children's Hospice International 18th World Congress that was held in Singapore. Participants include paediatric, palliative and hospice care providers from around the world CCF also provided sponsorship to the 1st St. Jude-Viva Forum with a focus on training of medical prefessionals in Singapore and the ASEAN region Learn more about our childhood cancer reseach initiatives: Cord Blood Bank of Singapore