Margaret Ethel Jew winners announced
Dr Kristina Horne and Dr Tomas Kavanagh
Congratulations to Dr Tomas Kavanagh and Dr Kristina Horne on being the 2024 Margaret Ethel Jew Fund recipients.
Dr Tomas Kavanagh is a member of the Alzheimer’s and Neurodegeneration Research Team at the Brain and Mind Centre.
Dr Kristina Horne works as a member of the Brain and Mind Centre’s Social Functioning Modelling Team.
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Dr Rachel Tan and Gabi Adler
I'm very grateful to this fund that enables our research into dementia, and to the Brain and Mind Centre for supporting us
Last year, Dr Rachel Tan and her team were the recipients of this stipend, which aided their research in understanding the disease pathogenesis in dementia.
This included the paper published in Brain Communications, led by postgraduate student Ms. Gabi Adler. The paper looks at how certain proteins (hnRNPs) behave in two brain diseases linked to TDP-43, ALS and Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD). The researchers found that in FTLD, these proteins disappear from the cell nucleus and seem to be connected to the abnormal spread of TDP-43, which could help scientists better understand and eventually treat these diseases.
Applications for this fund open in the first quarter of every year for all Brain and Mind Centre researchers.
Margaret Ethel Jew
The Margaret Ethel Jew Fund was first established in 2019 by the Jew family, who donated $100,000 for Dementia Research at the Brain and Mind Centre in memory of Margaret Ethel Jew.
An annual stipend of $5000 is awarded to an affiliated researcher, with the ambition to support research into causation, treatment and the prevention of dementia. This annual award has produced numerous successful insights into our understanding and potential treatment options towards dementia.