Australia Day Honours for Professor Justin Yerbury
IHMRI motor neurone disease researcher Prof. Justin Yerbury was honoured on Australia Day with an Order of Australia Award.
IHMRI motor neurone disease researcher Prof. Justin Yerbury was honoured on Australia Day with an Order of Australia Award.
Motor neurone disease researcher Professor Justin Yerbury will fly to Perth this week for the International Symposium on ALS/MND, after months of planning.
Associate Professor Lezanne Ooi has been awarded a $100,000 Benalla Act to d'feet MND Research Innovator Innovator Grant to support her project investigating ways to protect motor neurons before they start to break down in MND.
A Queensland school student has traded her weekend screen time for a life lesson in philanthropy and community spirit, raising funds for the MND research of Professor Justin Yerbury.
Recipients of the 2019 Magnified Justin Yerbury Travel Scholarships are set to attend the International Symposium on MND/ALS in Perth in December.
MND Genies Kaitlin and Jessica Ellis, and Rebecca Young, visited Professor Justin Yerbury's research team to learn more about the genetic form of motor neurone disease.
IHMRI helped raise awareness of motor neurone disease at the Motor Neurone Disease Association of NSW's Walk to d'Feet MND at Bulli beach on Sunday 5 May.
UNIActive's fundraising boot camp was a great success, with almost 200 people taking part to support the research of Professor Justin Yerbury.
Senior Professor Mark Wilson and Professor Heath Ecroyd have been awarded the funding to identify potential new drug treatments.
Professor Justin Yerbury hosted a public lecture on MND research at IHMRI to thank people who have donated to his research, and also met with philanthropist John Laidlaw.