We give our heartfelt thanks to long term supporter Liverpool Catholic Club who have made an additional donation of $60,000 to continue the study of blood mutations in patients undergoing haematopoietic stem cell transplants (HSCT).

Liverpool Catholic Club have donated $197,500 over the past 6 years towards important medical research, this being the latest research project conduced by the St Vincent’s Centre for Applied Medical Research, aimed at improving the safety of haematopoietic stem cell transplants (HSCT).

With this ongoing funding support, genome sequencing of HSCT patients before and after their transplant is being performed to determine how HSCT affects the accumulation of new mutations in their blood, and whether specific mutations are associated with subsequent post-treatment complications.

Dr Tim Molloy, senior Research Scientist at St Vincent’s Centre for Applied Medical Research says “Liverpool Catholic Club’s funding has been instrumental in enabling us to pursue these important goals, which we hope will translate into improved patient care and save lives in the not too distant future”.