Video of the week: Red Lab Coat Day 2018 - Kiss Goodbye to MS

 

Every year on 1 May 1 research groups throughout Australia participate in Red Lab Coat Day. The day aims to raise the profile of and funding for research on multiple sclerosis organized.

 

This year your CCS Neuroscience MS researchers have put together a hilarious video for the 'Kiss Goodbye to MS' campaign to raise awareness and funds. The video is part of the 'Battle of the Labs', and Helmut Butzkueven, Vilija Jokabaitis, Mastura Monif, Steven Petratos and Anneke van der Walt would love you to vote for it. They want to win the surprise prize!

 

Vote here: https://kissgoodbyetoms.org/red-lab-coat-day-2018/

Please share the link with all your family, friends and colleagues, ask them to ‘kiss’ (vote) for their favourite and post on your social media using the attached social tiles and the #KissGoodbyeToMS and #RedLabCoatDay hashtags.

 

See the video and the photo gallery here:

 

View CCS video: https://youtu.be/1Ezbx5CKjSA

Gallery: https://photos.app.goo.gl/on1sYn1XmtXp1jlD3

 

Photo of the week: Red Lab Coat Day

Research groups throughout Australia participated in the Red Lab Coat Day activities on 1 May. They were organized by MS Research Australia to raise the profile of  and funding for research on multiple sclerosis. See more photos of the various groups on Twitter using the hashtag #kissmsgoodbye . Within Central Clinical School, Dr Steven Petratos (pictured above with his research group) is investigating stem cell therapies for various brain disorders including multiple sclerosis.

Photo of the Week: Red Lab Coat Day 2016

MS Research Australia's "Red Lab Coat Day" raises awareness and funds for multiple sclerosis research. The Petratos lab in Central Clinical School has a grant from them and is participating in the day. L-R on this photo: Mr Speros Thomas (PhD student), Mrs Amani Alrehaili (PhD student), Dr Steven Petratos (Lab group leader), Mrs Maya Bakhuraysah, Dr Jae Young Lee, Miss Erica Kim (PhD student), Ms Kylie Magee (Lab manager), Ms Melissa Beimond (Honours). See more:

• About the research at: www.med.monash.edu.au/medicine/alfred/research/petratos-group.html
• MS Research Australia's research projects: www.msra.org.au/research
• Photo gallery of the 2016 Red Lab Coat Day group
• Follow @MSResearchAust with hashtags #RedLabCoatDay and #KissGoodbyeToMS

Photo of the Week: Red Lab Coat Day

Maha Bakhuraysa, PhD student in Dr Steven Petratos's lab, writing "Multiple Sclerosis" in Arabic. You can support Australia’s MS research #kissgoodbyetoms by donating at www.kissgoodbyetoms.org. You can also spread the work with tweeting the hashtag #KissGoodbyetoMS and #redlabcoatday. Weblink for further information and to donate:  www.kissgoodbyetoms.org

Multiple Sclerosis Research Australia (MSRA) had their inaugural Red Lab Coat Day on 1 May 2015 to "Kiss goodbye to MS" by raising awareness and funds for Multiple Sclerosis research. Dr Steven Petratos of the Central Clinical School heads up a research group focussing on stem cell therapies for brain disorders, including Multiple Sclerosis. His lab was one of twelve participating nationally in the MSRA campaign.

Dr Petratos was the only Australian to receive project funding in 2014 from the International Progressive MS Alliance and his Senior Research Fellow, Dr Christopher Siatskas received $290,000 in MSRA funding in 2011. The group is investigating the underlying pathology of progression, and the MSRA funding is assisting the investigation of a new strategy for developing a therapy that limits damage to nerve cells and stops the progression of MS.

• To donate: www.kissgoodbyetoms.org.
• hashtags #redlabcoatday #kissgoodbyetomsSee more:
• About the Petratos group's research: www.med.monash.edu.au//medicine/alfred/research/petratos-group.html
• Photo gallery of the Red Lab Coat Day group