Yesterday, I was in the drivers seat behind @TheASMR1's #AdvanceAustraliaCare campaign. I'm thrilled we trended on twitter all day! Perhaps what was most humbling and awe inspiring was the reminder of just how much talent exits in Australian health and medical research 👇 https://twitter.com/TheASMR1/status/1336416307873386497
To think with @nhmrc funding we might have a treatment for obesity!? https://twitter.com/DrStewartC/status/1336407702701019141

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I learnt that cancers use tricks that blood vessels use to spread, and if we had enough @nhmrc funding we could have a therapy that stops cancers spreading https://twitter.com/claudine_bonder/status/1336491865068040192
I learnt that stress-induced mental illness could be a thing of the past with more @nhmrc funding https://twitter.com/postmortemgirl/status/1336517894033661952
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I learnt that activation of not several but just ONE teeny tiny receptor is enough to change how a cell works https://twitter.com/Dr_MLHalls/status/1336529028623187970
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...and on a more personal level, I learnt that maybe I could suffer less, if there was more @nhmrc funding https://twitter.com/AndreasObermair/status/1336477178721050625
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I learnt that there's good vs bad dietary nitrates https://twitter.com/BondonnoN/status/1336463872060866561?s=20
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I found someone I would love to collaborate with, if I had funding https://twitter.com/VesselDynamics/status/1336448708192264193?s=20
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...and I was reminded how much talent has left Australia https://twitter.com/Cwhitch/status/1336611001874132993
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I just loved the sense of community we felt
https://twitter.com/DrLauraMasters/status/1336865551742771202?s=20
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...and the media interest that has begun https://twitter.com/stem_mitch/status/1336937554633842688?s=20

PS. Listen to @normanswan's @RadioNational Health Report on Monday

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Most importantly, I hope we were able to increase the visibility of how much fantastic research we are missing out on in Australia, and how urgently we need help saving the health and medical research sector - in particular basic sciences - so we can #AdvanceAustraliaCare
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