Jul 4, 2021
“This funding will allow our health and medical researchers to undertake important research for the benefit of many Australians and their families, through trials that use stem cell grown heart muscle in patients with ‘no option’ end-stage heart failure,” he said.
Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) 2020 Stem Cell Mission grants awarded to Sydney researchers include:
Dr Anai Gonzalez Cordero – awarded $498,419 for stem cell derived-retinal organoids to test genetic therapies. The majority of inherited retinal conditions leading to total blindness are due to loss of the light-sensing cells of the eye, the photoreceptor cells. Harnessing researcher expertise in human stem cell biology, genetics, ophthalmology and gene therapy to test efficacy of new therapies, research output aims to overcome the leading cause of blindness in the working-age population.