Dr Emily Edwards wins ASPIRE award for primary immunodeficiency research

Dr Emily Edwards has received an ASPIRE award

Congratulations to Dr Emily Edwards for winning the ASPIRE award presented by Grifols. The ASPIRE  (Award for Scientific Progress in Immunodeficiency Research) Award program is particularly interested in innovative ideas in the field of primary and secondary immunodeficiencies and the role of immunoglobulin therapy.

As part of this prestigious international award, Emily will receive €50,000 for her project, "Advancing the Genetic Diagnosis of Predominantly Antibody Deficiency through Development and Implementation of Functional Diagnostic Screening Assays." 

The project will support Emily's ongoing work in collaboration with Dr Julian Bosco and Prof Robyn O'Hehir (Alfred Health), Dr Samar Ojaimi (Monash Health), Dr Jason Fok (Eastern Health) and A/Prof Menno van Zelm (Monash University), and will be awarded at the ESID conference in Gothenburg, Sweden in October.

ASPIRE award to support blood cancer research

Associate Professor Ross Dickins is one of the first two
Australian recipients of The Mark Foundation's ASPIRE award.

Monash University’s Associate Professor Ross Dickins has been awarded a USD $232,000 (approximately $325,000 AUD) ASPIRE Award to support his research into preventing relapse following acute myeloid leukemia (AML) therapy from US-based philanthropic organisation The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research.