Great Australian Lives With Laura Turner

Join Laura Turner and her guest Professor Michael Parker. This program is proudly supported by Tobin Brothers Funerals - celebrating lives. Laura Turner catches up with an exciting world biochemistry and pharmacology expert working tirelessly to eradicate Alzheimer’s disease - Professor Michael Parker from the St. Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research. Michael and his team have just been awarded the Faye Williams Innovation Grant, worth $375,000, to further research into a new drug treatment with Alzheimer’s disease. With just under half a million Australians living with dementia, it is key and important work that could improve the lives of many. The research projects will show how acoustic sleep technology, paired with a new drug treatment may work to help reduce the toxins associated with the development and onset of Alzheimer’s disease. In Professor Parker’s research, there will be a new drug trialled that can help enhance the brain’s ability to clear the toxins associated with the development in A