Medical Research Future Fund

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Associate Professor Jeanie Cheong: My expertise is in the area of newborn brain. 

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We spent many years understanding why do pre-term children have health and developmental challenges when they grow up and we actually have a very deep understanding of what those challenges are now. 

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However, we’re moving on to the next step of also understanding what the risk factors are and what the protective factors are. 

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Then can we go on to look at how we make things better, trial new treatments, new interventions that can maximise these children to reach their full potential.

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I’ve been fortunate to have received a Medical Research Future Fund Career Development Fellowship. 

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This Fund enables me to have protected research time, time where I can manage the research projects and train the future generations of researchers who will carry on the work into the future.

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The Medical Research Future Fund has the opportunity to offer all these individuals hope to achieve what they could have done regardless of the events that happened around birth.