Medical Sciences are associated with health professions within the medical research and clinical health fields. Medical and health scientists play an important role within the medical research and clinical health fields in both private industry and hospital settings. Using the scientific bases of human structure, function and health, medical and health scientists are involved in unravelling the causes of disease, as well as the development of diagnostic tools, development of therapies, treatments and health services.
Medical Sciences
UOW academic will lead stem cell research on Friedreich's ataxia
Associate Professor Mirella Dottori has received a US$250,000 grant from Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance (FARA) to use stem cell-based models to examine how the human sensory nervous system is developmentally impaired in Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA) that currently has no cure and shortens life expectancy within early adulthood.
Read more about Associate Professor Dottori's research