Rotary Hawthorn Meeting on Zoom 27 August 2024
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Hawthorn
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Overview, Health and Biomedical Sciences, Immunotherapy
Speaker: Professor Vasso Apostolopoulos
Vasso is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Health and Biomedical Sciences.
'She is a world-renowned researcher who has been recognised with more than100 awards, including the Premier’s Award for Medical Research, Young Australian of the Year (Vic), Greek Australian of the Year, Woman of the Year was named one of the most successful Greeks abroad by the prestigious Times magazine. She was the first to develop a method of immunotherapy to stimulate the immune system in the early 1990s, which today is used by hundreds of labs around the world Vasso has applied several immunotherapies to other diseases including MS, diabetes, Alzheimer’s’ disease. She is committed to driving her research and programs to help people age healthy. Vasso has recently moved to RMIT'.
M.C.: Ian Bentley