No matter what your vocation in life, you can play a role in the search for cures for life-threatening and fatal diseases – whether they touch your own loved ones or complete strangers – simply by supporting The Millennium Foundation. The funds raised by The Millennium Foundation for Westmead Hospital and Westmead Millennium Institute, help to facilitate the search and development of vital cures for the future as well as helping those who find themselves in hospital today.


The painstaking search for cures remains in the hands of scientists and doctors, but we can all contribute in a meaningful way to this life-saving effort. You can do your bit simply by supporting The Millennium Foundation, whose very purpose is to ensure that the search for cures can go on.

Disease of the Month: Asthma
In a world first scientists at Westmead Millennium Institute (WMI) have identified a gene associated with allergic diseases such as asthma, providing new hope for potential drug treatments.