LIT and Telethon Making a Difference for Child Health

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 September LIT and Telethon Making a Difference for Child Health LIT and Telethon Making a Difference for Child Health 29/09/2021 | 3 MINS Telethon and LIT have a lot in common. Both institutions, established in WA, channel the goodwill and philanthropy of the community to enable life-changing research which is improving the lives and health outcomes of children locally and globally. Channel 7 Telethon Trust grants are funding world-first research at LIT and there will be the opportunity to encounter first-hand some of this research at the forthcoming 2021 Telethon Family Festival on 17 October. Award-winning LIT researchers, Professor Wendy Erber and Associate Professor Kathy Fuller, have been developing improved testing techniques for childhood leukaemia. Children with chronic myeloid leukaemia may require lifelong medication. Medication that whilst providing good disease control affects their growth, development and fertility. Supported by Telethon, this team has invented a new test to monitor the leukaemia in order to confidently d

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 September LIT and Telethon Making a Difference for Child Health LIT and Telethon Making a Difference for Child Health 29/09/2021 | 3 MINS Telethon and LIT have a lot in common.

Both institutions, established in WA, channel the goodwill and philanthropy of the community to enable life-changing research which is improving the lives and health outcomes of children locally and globally.

We do more when we ask better questions together.