In addition to other scientists around the world, we are very fortunate to have researchers in our home city of Brisbane, Australia who are working on a cure for A-T. Professor Martin Lavin and his team at QIMR (Queensland Institute of Medical Research) have been terrific in helping us better understand A-T and the advances that are being made in finding a cure.
We are proud to announce a major step in the fight against A-T with the commencement of the search for a suitable applicant for the BrAshA-T PhD Scholarship. This advertisement (closing date 30 January 2009) has been circulated to 32 universities across Australia by QIMR's Martin Lavin in the hope of finding a first-class researcher.
From April 22-26, 2008, a workshop was held in Shiga, Japan and Krissy was fortunate enough to be able to attend - her first overseas trip! Highlights of the trip included hearing the latest research developments from the actual researchers and scientists and meeting people from other A-T organisations including Maureen from the AT Society (UK) and Brad Margus of the A-T Children's Project (USA). Brad has probably done more than anyone in the world else to raise awareness and funds for the fight against A-T.
It was also encouraging to see so many attendees at the conference (click here for pic) for such a rare disease and as one of the researchers told Krissy, "don't forget that for each of us here at this conference, there is a team of people from where each of us came from who are also working hard for a cure".
Professor Martin Lavin and the Qld Institute of Medical Research hosted an Ataxia-Telangiectasia Forum at the Institute in Brisbane on Friday the 23rd of May 2008. Among the speakers was BrAshA-T's Krissy Roebig, Professor Martin Lavin and keynote speaker, Professor Thomas Crawford, visiting neurologist form the United States (click here for pics).
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