Run for Research 2026

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Since 1998, the Perkins has grown to become one of the nation's leading adult medical research centres, where a close-knit team of more than 450 research and clinical staff work together to defeat the major diseases that impact our community.
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Perkins researchers focus on some of the major diseases that affect our community. In particular we focus on cancer, diabetes, heart disease and neuromuscular diseases.
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You can support Perkins work in many different ways. From participating in an event, to attending a workshop in the BioDiscovery Centre, to volunteering your time, or supporting our research, we welcome your involvement.
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RUN FOR RESEARCH 2026

Run or walk 3km a day to support life-saving medical research!

This November, we are challenging you to join us and run or walk 3km a day and fundraise to help support medical research, finding more effective treatments against Australia’s toughest diseases.

When you Run for Research, not only are you enhancing your own physical and mental health, but you’re also raising vital funds for medical research towards diseases that affect millions of Aussies.

Here’s how it works:

Pick a time of day that suits you. We recommend dusk or dawn as UV levels are at their lowest making it safer to exercise outside.
Pick a place, tie up your laces and get moving!
Ask for donations to defeat the diseases that most affect your loved ones.
Do it all again the next day.

Let’s show these diseases they’re no match for a pair of determined joggers—let’s go!

Event Details

WHEN

November 2026

WHERE

Up to you!

HOW TO JOIN

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All donations of $2 and over are tax deductible in Australia.

Perkins is registered with the Australian Taxation Office as a Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR): Charitable Fundraising Authority No DGR CC20761

The Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research recognises Australia’s first healers and scientists, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We acknowledge the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation, the Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live and work, and pay respects to their elders past and present.

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