Bone marrow transplants are often used as a treatment for Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes. But this treatment comes with a lot of risks and potential complications, such as poor graft function, infections, or requiring long-term blood transfusion support. Dr North’s project focuses on understanding poor graft function, a potentially life-threatening complication of transplants, by investigating its causes at a cellular level within the bone marrow environment.
By knowing more about why bone marrow transplants fail or result in complications, we can provide better treatments or even prevent them from occurring. This research project is proudly funded by Maddie Riewoldt’s Vision and Haematology Society of Australia and New Zealand.
2020 – 2024 (Alex Gadomski Scholarship): Steps toward generating new molecular therapies for Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes, Ariel Simpson, Menzies Institute for Medical Research and University of Tasmania. The only established treatment ...
Read more2017 – 2019 Fellowship / 2017 Grant-in-Aid, Towards targeted treatments for Fanconi Anaemia, Associate Professor Wayne Crismani, St Vincents Institute for Medical Research Fanconi Anaemia is an inherited disorder which can lead to bone ...
Read more2019-2023 (co-funded Snowdome/Gunn Family/Maddie Riewoldt’s Vision) The Gunn Family National Fellowship for Career Development in Research – Women in Haematology. Novel blood biomarkers for predicting bone marrow failure in Myeloproliferative ...
Read more2020-2022 (Grant-in-Aid): Using whole genome sequence analysis to find answers for unsolved cases of inherited Bone marrow Failure Syndrome. Associate Professor Piers Blombery, The University of Melbourne. Inherited Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes ...
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