2nd Annual Symposium - " Bridging Research and Care for Patients"

The JMF Centre for Primary Immunodeficiencies Melbourne held its 2nd annual symposium on Friday 11th October 2019. The symposium feature a keynote from A/Prof Mirjam van der Burg (LUMC, Leiden, The Netherlands) alongside short talks from local immunology registrars: Josh Chatelier - Alfred Health; Laine Hosking - The Royal Children’s Hospital and Fiona Moghaddas - The Royal Melbourne Hospital, and junior researcher Emily Edwards - Monash University.

The centre would like to acknowledge the support of the Australasian and New Zealand Society for Immunology (ASI) Visiting Speakers Program for their support of Mirjam’s visit to Australia.

Launch of the JMF Centre for Primary Immunodeficiencies Melbourne

The JMF Centre for Immunodeficiencies in Melbourne has been established in 2018. To mark this occasion, we officially launched the Centre on June 14, 2018 in the form of an opening symposium with dedication ceremony.

The launch of the centre involved presentations by several key researchers and clinicians involved in the field of Primary Immunodeficiencies. This was followed by a patient and family orientated session co-hosted with IDFA, which provided information about PIDs, diagnosis and treatment. Some patients also shared their experiences with PID and the challenges they’ve faced.

On behalf of IDFA and JMF Centre for Primary Immunodeficiencies Melbourne