Endometriosis and the Importance of Research at IMB
Endometriosis affects the health of almost 1 million Australians, causing serious pain and sometimes infertility. Due to challenges with diagnosis, and because of disease complexity, endometriosis is not yet well understood. It’s time to strengthen the response: technology, data and research have reached a critical point where we can make a difference in the lives of sufferers, and their families.
IMB’s Professor Grant Montgomery and Dr Sally Mortlock, who together have nearly four decades of endometriosis research experience, are leading a project team to:
improve the lives of those affected
cut diagnosis time
develop personalised management plans
Donations will fund a research assistant and research nurse to recruit patients and analyse their data, to build better diagnostic support tools. Together this will positively impact every endometriosis sufferer.
This Giving Day, make your donation count and help us move closer to improving the lives of those affected, and their families, by developing better methods of diagnosis and treatment.
It’s time to ease the burden your sister, your mother, your neighbour, your co-worker, maybe even you, have been shouldering. The more endometriosis is talked about, researched, and understood, the faster patients can be diagnosed, and that burden will ease.
Endometriosis has historically been underfunded, due to a lack of awareness of the disease. That is changing today with your help and the research undertaken by IMB scientists, with their life-changing work.
Tangible examples of how donation can help our research:
$50 – Covers the lab equipment needed to collect data from each patient
$100 – Supports a research nurse to recruit a patient for the study
$500 – Supports analysis of a patient’s clinical and genetic data
$1000 – Supports the sequencing of genetic risk factors in 4 patients
We need your help to ease the burden of endometriosis. Join us today, by donating to IMB’s life-changing research