ANRI - Australian Neuro-Muscular Research Institute

The Australian Neuro-muscular Research Institute (ANRI) is one of Western Australia's longest running and most successful research organisations.

Based at the Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre and attached to the University of Western Australia, over the past 30 years ANRI has built an international reputation for its research on a range of brain, nerve and muscle disorders.

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ANRI RESEARCHERS WIN HIGHLY PRESTIGIOUS 2012 WA INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR AWARD At a luncheon on 8 November hosted by the WA Department of Commerce, Professors Steve Wilton and Sue Fletcher from the Australian Neuromuscular Research Institute (ANRI), a UWA-affiliated medical research institute based at the QEII Medical Centre, were awarded the highly prestigious Mitsubishi Corporation WA Innovator of the Year Award for 2012. The award is designed to acknowledge major innovations made by Western Australian individuals and businesses that have the potential to generate significant benefits for the Western Australian economy and community. The award is in recognition of the outstanding achievement of Professors Wilton and Fletcher in pioneering the development of a new RNA "antisense" oligonucleotide-based drug for the treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), a devastating and fatal disease that affects 1 in every 3,600 boys. DMD, the most common fo....
Congratulations Prof. Steve Wilton who has had a paper published in British Medical Journal, The Lancet. The paper reports on the results of the worlds first successful trials for treating Duchenne muscular dystrophy, directed by Steve in the UK consortium....