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Wednesday, 4 May 2016

The Amanda Young Foundation has provided a Top-Up Scholarship for research into Meningococcal Disease to Christopher Mullally in the laboratory of Assoc Prof Charlene Kahler, the Deputy Director of the Marshall Center.

The Amanda Young Foundation is a non-profit community organisation dedicated to reducing deaths in WA from meningococcal disease. The Foundation was formed in 1998 following the tragic death of Amanda Young from meningococcal septicaemia at the tender age of 18 years. Barry and Lorraine Young have been outstanding supporters of research in WA, having supported multiple projects both at UWA's Marshall Center for Infectious Diseases and the Telethon Kids Institute.

The Foundation have previously supported an epidemiology study of meningococcal disease in the past 15 years in Western Australia by Shakeel Mowlaboccus in the Kahler research group. Christopher Mullally is currently studying the pathogenicity determinants in Neisseria meningitidis which will assist in clearly defining how this organism causes meningitis and sepsis.

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For more information, please contact Charlene Kahler at the Marshall Centre for Infectious Diseases Research and Training

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