Wednesday, May 7, 2025

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Overview

Chair: Associate Professor Angela Laird and Anastasiya Potapenko

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Details

Angela Laird leads an MJD research group at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia). After her post-doctoral work using transgenic zebrafish within a leading Motor Neuron Disease laboratory at the University of Leuven, Belgium, she returned to Australia to establish the world’s first MJD zebrafish model, funded by the MJDF. Her group has been successful at producing and characterising MJD zebrafish and are currently testing the effect of various drugs on these fish with the aim of identifying potential MJD treatments. She has regularly welcomed MJD patients and families to the Sydney research facility to see the MJD zebrafish.