2025 UQ Giving Day

UQ Giving Day

QCGC Research was selected as one of the fundraising causes for UQ Giving Day, a 24-hour online fundraising movement where we ask alumni and the community to make a gift towards a cause they are passionate about. UQ Giving Day took place on Wednesday 15 October 2025.

Donations to the Queensland Centre for Gynaecological Cancer will help our team to provide options to women with gynaecological cancer to enable them to make choices about their care, that suits their needs, and be able to live their best lives following cancer treatment.

Visit the Giving Day page here and help us save lives!

Accelerating Hope for Women with Cervical Cancer

Despite being preventable, cervical cancer will not be eradicated in Australia until 2080. Each year, more than 1,000 Australian women face this devastating disease, and one third will not survive. Treatment is often physically and emotionally gruelling, and screening rates remain low in key populations.

For the 2025 UQ Giving Day, QCGC Research called on its community to help change the future for women diagnosed with cervical cancer.

We successfully raised $51,155 from 78 wonderful supporters! Thank you!

Enabling us to secure 2,000 lab hours for a groundbreaking cervical cancer project – the only initiative of its kind currently underway in Australia. These lab hours will lay the foundation for developing a minimally invasive blood test to support earlier detection of cervical cancer, monitor treatment response and improve outcomes for women.

For every $10 donated to gynaecological cancer research through QCGC Research, an additional $10 was matched by UQ and $10 by Cherish Women's Cancer Foundation. Meaning each person's gift was tripled, making three times the impact.

Together, we can give women with cervical cancer a better chance.