00:01Breaking down blood samples to provide pinpoint prescriptions.
00:06We've taken the ability to resolve how people develop immune disease
00:11at kind of an unprecedented depth.
00:13Decades of pioneering studies finding specific mutations in a person's genome
00:18capable of disrupting how their immune system functions
00:21are now being used by Professor Jung's team
00:24to more quickly diagnose and treat patients
00:27referred from across Australia with rare and complex conditions
00:31with fewer unnecessary side effects.
00:33They can treat the symptoms but Simon gets to the actual crux
00:37of what the condition is and why you've got it
00:39and looking at the medications that can actually target the causes of what's going on.
00:44Personalised medicine is most powerful for patients
00:47where it's a very severe disease, where treatment is currently failing,
00:52where there is uncertainty around what the diagnosis is.
00:54With territory, federal, university and philanthropic funding,
00:58the centre also works with First Nations communities
01:01to identify new treatments to combat kidney disease.
01:05One of the things that we know about Canberra Health Services
01:08and Canberra Hospital in particular is it's still in that evolution
01:12from what was effectively a regional hospital
01:15to a genuine teaching, research, training hospital
01:19that is showcasing innovation.
01:21Research with life-changing results.
01:24results.
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