An online scientific seminar series focused on motor neurone disease (MND) Research. Hear from national experts and emerging leaders in MND research including the latest clinical trials, drug developments, pre-clinical models, discovery research and collaborative platforms. Learn, connect and share with the Australian MND research community.
For enquiries related to the seminar series, please contact: Dr Sarah Bennett
Translational research focuses on moving laboratory discoveries into clinical trials, with the goal of improving outcomes for patients. It is said that taking a discovery into the clinic is an event that may happen only a few times in a career as a researcher. However, in the last decade, advocacy and support throughout the MND community has made translational research become more achievable. In this seminar, I will talk about my road to translation, starting with discoveries that were only made possible through the combining of research in people living with MND with research in our laboratory models, through to the MetFlex clinical trial, and finally, what lies on the horizon.
A/Prof Shyuan Ngo is a Group Leader at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (UQ), Director of the UQ Centre for MND Research, and an Affiliate/Adjunct Academic at the Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital (RBWH) and Murdoch University. She received her PhD in Neuroscience in 2009, after which, she transitioned to the field of MND. A/Prof Ngo started her independent research group at UQ in 2015 and has built a translational research program that integrates studies in people living with MND with studies in human-derived cell models (stem cell-derived neurons and organoids, human muscle cells) and mouse models of MND to define the mechanisms that drive MND and to identify therapeutic strategies for the disease.
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