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Dr Shyuan Ngo is a group leader working in the UQ Centre for Stem Cell Ageing and Regenerative Engineering (UQ-StemCARE) at AIBN. She and her team are trying to determine what causes the development and progression of Motor Neurone Disease (MND).

AIBN is pleased to announce that Professor Debra Bernhardt has been awarded the 2017 Association of Molecular Modellers of Australasia (AMMA) Medal.

AIBN intends to be part of the global concerted effort to achieve gender equality. To this end, we have established a number of initiatives that align with national and international recommendations to achieve parity as soon as possible.

The Wolvetang laboratory at AIBN recently found that key areas of the brain affected in this disease can be recreated in the lab using patient-derived stem cells, and this has now been published in the journal Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience.

The Australian Research Council Training Centre for Biopharmaceutical Innovation (CBI), will receive $110,000 in provisional funding for a major training program.