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Recent research in genetics has shown huge potential to enable medicine to move beyond therapy to disease prevention and radically improve the health of our community.

This exciting possibility will be the subject of the 2012 Ian Constable Lecture, to be given by Professor Matt Brown, Director of the Diamantina Institute. Professor Brown's lecture will discuss the achievements of genetic research over the last century and how current research is leading us towards the prevention of certain diseases. He will also discuss some of the possible pitfalls along the way.

Professor Brown joined University of Queensland's Diamantina Institute as Professor of Immunogenetics in 2005 and was one of the founding investigators of the Wellcome Trust Case-Control Consortium, which developed the genome-wide association study.

The annual Ian Constable lecture is presented by the Lions Eye Institute and the Institute of Advanced Studies at UWA. This series honours the work of Professor Ian Constable, recognised as one of the world's leading ophthalmic surgeons.

The LEI incorporates the Centre of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at UWA, combining the expertise of ophthalmologists and researchers from a broad spectrum of scientific fields, and is now one of the largest medical eye research institutes in the southern hemisphere.

WHAT: Public lecture, 2012 Ian Constable Lecture - Genetics and the Future of Medicine

WHERE: University Club Theatre Auditorium, The University of Western Australia. (Parking P3, off Hackett Drive.)

WHEN: Monday 22 October 2012 at 6pm.

RSVP : Institute of Advanced Studies.

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Audrey Barton (UWA Institute of Advanced Studies)  (+61 8)  6488 4797