The MPN Alliance Australia is proud to announce that they have donated a total of $20,000 to support the MPN Interferon Initiative.

In April 2018, the MPN (Myeloproliferative Neoplasms) Research Foundation (MPNRF) and MPN Alliance Australia (MPN AA) announced a research partnership focused on the MPN Interferon Initiative. MPNRF and MPN AA are both patient advocacy organizations who work on behalf of patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms, a group of rare, chronic blood cancers.

The MPNRF Interferon (IFN) Initiative is a multi-center project which will bring together internationally recognized experts in both blood and solid tumors to determine how cytokine-driven pathways affect the trajectory of the MPNs, a closely-related group of progressive blood cancers. The collaboration among this group of scientists is unprecedented and speaks to their drive to answer this question, which could have wide-ranging impact on the lives of people living with cancer.

The MPN AA’s donation is directly supporting research by Dr Steven Lane in Brisbane as part of the Interferon Initiative in partnership with MPN Research.

We would like to thank the community for the support and donations towards this important research initiative.