Justin Yerbury

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Professor Justin Yerbury is a Eureka Prize winning molecular biologist at the University of Wollongong and a world leader in motor neurone disease research. He started his scientific career after losing several family members to MND and discovering that his family carried a rare genetic form of the disease. Justin began experiencing symptoms himself in 2016 and is now 99% paralysed, only able to communicate using eye-gaze technology, but he continues to search for a cure. He lives in Wollongong with his wife, and his two adult daughters live close by.

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Fighting Fate

By Justin Yerbury

Justin Yerbury made a promise to his mother while she was dying of motor neurone disease (MND) that he would do everything he could to find a cure. MND had already taken several members of Justin's family, and he learned that they carried a rare genetic form of the disease that gave them a fifty-...

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