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With support from The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) Foundation and the Live Life Foundation, join Associate Professor Andrew Kornberg, Senior Neurologist at the RCH as he navigates Australia flying a plane – solo – taking off on Wednesday 2 July 2025!

Follow his journey and help us fundraise $4.5 million to change the future for children with rare and complex disorders at the RCH and across Australia through advanced therapies.

Advanced therapies, such as gene therapy, are an innovative, and rapidly growing area of medicine that is changing how we treat some of the rarest and most complex conditions that were previously thought to be untreatable. Access to advanced therapies is not only helping children achieve milestones that once seemed impossible, but they are also reducing hospitalisations and, in some cases, providing a cure.

Your support can help transform the lives of children and young people and ensure more patients can access gene therapies, and other advanced therapies, at the RCH.

Meet the pilot

“Join me and make a life-changing difference in the lives of sick children across Australia. Let’s take to the skies together and create a brighter future!”

– Associate Professor Andrew Kornberg

In-flight entertainment

Follow Andrew as he takes flight around Australia. Travelling for over 50 hours and covering 27,000 kilometers, Andrew’s adventure will include stopping off to visit RCH patients across the country.

“The biggest thing we used to focus on was survival and keeping Jacob alive. Now we’re aiming to get Jacob to walk, which wasn’t even a thought for kids with spinal muscular atrophy 10 years ago,”

Brooke, Jacob’s mum