Professor Kathryn North AC BSc(Med) MBBS MD DMedSc FRACP FAHMS

Ep. 47 Professor Kathryn North AC 

Professor Kathryn North is one of Australia's leading and most influential physician scientists. Trained as a paediatrician, neurologist and clinical geneticist, Kathryn is recognised internationally for her leadership in genomic medicine and her research into inherited myopathies and genes that influence human muscle performance.

Kathryn's achievements in bringing genomics medicine into clinical practice have transformed the lives of thousands of children across Australia through major innovations in the areas of gene discovery, improved diagnosis and prevention, understanding of disease mechanism and the development and evaluation of novel therapies through clinical trials. She is also leading national and international initiatives focused on genomic data sharing and the implementation of genomic medicine into clinical practice.

She has also studied the Elite Athlete Gene for 25 years. But as yet, it's reproduction is a way off and therefore she was not be able to help me get to the 100M start line of the 2032 Olympics in Brisbane, Australia. It was worth asking.

It's an extraordinary dedication with extraordinary results from an extraordinary team at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute.

www.mcri.edu.au

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