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.
Video transcript
[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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