Thursday 14th February gave some of the original and new members of the Tour de Cure family the chance to see where the fundraised monies go, and how helpful their efforts are- not to mention how well recieved!Out at the Westmead Millenium Centre- the research facility attached to the Westmead hospital- we got to be a part of the naming ceremony and see a demonstration of their new research robot, EASI EVIE!
The name EASI EVIE is thanks to the clever Olivia Heath, daughter of Mal. She won the competition that was held to name the robot- and deservedly so. After hearing what EVIE does, the name is so fitting- she makes life so much EASIER for all researchers, and takes some of the steep hills out of the road to finding a cure!
A huge congrats go to Olivia! Well named and well spoken on Thursday.
Tour de Cure's involvement with EASI EVIE came from our 2007 donation to the National Breast Cancer Foundation (hence the pink writing), and allowed us to adopt EASI EVIE for 2008!
For Alex, Mal & Sam (Tour originals), viewing EVIE would have been awesome as it is a chance to see where their efforts have gone and inspire them to raise more and more this year. For the newbies, Charmaine, Ricky and Tom it was inspiring to see where our first time efforts can take us!
And how about those that get the benefits from using EASI EVIE! All of the hard workers at the Millenium Institute absolutely love EASI EVIE- I think it is something similar to the crush 
that we cyclists have on our bikes!
that we cyclists have on our bikes!Huge congratulations on their hard work and thankyou for hosting us goes to Professor Christine Clark, Dr Rosemary Balleine, Ms Barb Guild & Ms Jane Carpenter. The lucky lady that gets to work with EVIE every day Ms Li Ma does a terrific job- and, just quietly, enjoyed showing off her new favorite piece of equipment.
As for EVIE herself- she is amazing! Her sleek curves, shiny finish, German design- who wouldn't love her!
Practically she is even better... do I have a crush...? EASI EVIE is a robot that extracts DNA samples and stocks up the institutes tissue bank supplies. The number of tissue samples is extremely important when it comes to finding a cure for cancer- the more trials researchers can do, the closer they get to a cure!
What use to take 10 workers, 2 days- EASI EVIE does in 30 minutes!
And because she is pretty much flawless the researchers don't have to put up
with human error either. As Christine was telling us "EVIE is 
certainly going to make our life easier and allow us to be much more productive". Because EVIE is SO great, it allows other institutes, other researchers to access the higher quality and quantity of DNA samples- thats right, EVIE does the hard yards- she's not just a pretty face- wish the bikes would do that sort of work for us!
The TDC effect- On the road to finding a cure with the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Westmead Millenium Institute and EASI EVIE.
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Tom, you're right. It was fantastic to see how our efforts and all the TDC supporters, partners and donors who got behind us can make a difference.
This magnificent piece of technology helps researchers accerate their work output, the breast tissue analysis results -with a far greater degree of accuracy and precision - across the State and soon across the country.
It will help shorten the time it takes us in finding a cure for cancer.
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