Associate Professor Antony Cooper from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research is a cell and molecular biologist / geneticist with strong interests in elucidating how cellular dysfunction results in human diseases, with a specific interest in neurodegenerative disease such as Parkinson’s Disease. His research on neurodegenerative diseases focuses on understanding the basis of Parkinson’s Disease. Watch his story in the video below.
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[Music plays and an image of Professor Antony Cooper walking through a corridor appears on screen]
Professor Antony Cooper: I’m head of the Division of Neuroscience here at the Garvan Institute, and my lab predominantly focuses on Parkinson’s disease.
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In Australia there’s probably well over a 100,000 people who suffer from this disease and the disease is very progressive in nature,
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it just keeps getting worse and worse.
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The existing symptoms get worse and new symptoms arise.
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It’s urgent that we make some discoveries to really understand this disease and NHMRC provides us with the funding to make those discoveries, to answer those questions.
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For maybe 90 per cent of patients we actually don’t understand what’s causing the disease,
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we have some ideas, but we don’t know, and without knowing that we can’t find out how to stop it or treat it effectively.
[Music plays and NHMRC logo appears on screen with text beside it: Building a Healthier Australia]
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