Raising public awareness of Primary Immunodeficiencies
Emily Edwards
Dr Emily Edwards from the JMF centre Melbourne and the Monash University Department of Immunology has been spreading the word about PIDs around Melbourne!
On November 11th, Dr Edwards appeared on the Einstein A Go-Go program on local Melbourne radio station Triple R. She gave an excellent introduction to what PIDs are and the impacts they have on immune functioning, as well as some background into what exactly goes on in the B Cell Differentiation laboratory. Click here to have a listen to the interview, scroll through to 48.55 minutes.
Dr Edwards was also recently featured in a video by the Monash University Central Clinical School. In it, Dr Edwards describes the research she is currently undertaking on the functions of different immune cells involved in PID, with the aim of improving diagnosis, disease monitoring and treatment.