2008 Jamie Callachor Eureka Prize for Medical Research

2008 Winner

Multiple Sclerosis Group
Howard Florey Research Institute

For an extraordinary contribution towards finding potential treatments for sufferers of multiple sclerosis (MS), the devastating autoimmune disease which attacks the nervous system and affects 18,000 Australians.

2008 Finalist

Dr David Booth
Westmead Millennium Institute, NSW

For determined, innovative and multi-pronged research that, in one of the most significant advances in MS research in recent years, successfully identified that the gene interleukin 7 receptor alpha (IL7Ra) is associated with multiple sclerosis; for finding the differences between the genetic variants that are likely to effect disease susceptibility; and for developing new therapeutic strategies based on these discoveries to treat multiple sclerosis.