LOCAL FEDERAL MP – PHILIP RUDDOCK SUPPORTS JEANS FOR GENES DAY
BADGES MAY BE PURCHASED FROM MY OFFICE - LEVEL 3, 20 GEORGE STREET, HORNSBY
Member for Berowra, Philip Ruddock MP again supports this year’s Jeans for Genes Day on Friday 1 August 2008.
“Jeans for Genes Day is a major fundraiser of the Children’s Medical Research Institute which is a not for profit independent organisation working to find cures and preventions for childhood medical diseases and I encourage constituents to become involved,” Mr Ruddock said.
“One in twenty children is born with some kind of genetic illness such as leukemia, birth defects and epilepsy. The scientists at the Children’s Medical Research Institute are working to try to prevent these diseases before they occur in our children, or where that is not possible, to develop better treatments.”
On Jeans for Genes Day people are encouraged to leave the suit or school uniform at home and wear their favourite pair of jeans in support of the Children’s Medical Research Institute in exchange for a gold coin donation.
“We all have a pair of jeans so it is an easy and fun way to support this very worthy cause,” Philip Ruddock said.
“Of course for those people who cannot wear jeans to work or school on Friday 1 August there are other ways to show our support.
“Jeans for Genes badges, wristbands and dog tags will be available to purchase and I encourage anyone in our community who may be interested in supporting Jeans for Genes day to visit www.jeansforgenes.org.au and explore ways that every workplace and school can get involved.”
About The Children’s Medical Research Institute
The CMRI was founded in 1958 to conduct research into childhood diseases. The basic philosophy then, as it is now, was that a deeper understanding of disease mechanisms would lead to better forms of treatment and, in many cases, to the prevention of diseases, which cause premature death or long-term disability. Over the past 49 years, CMRI has contributed to advances in pediatric health and well-being in many ways, including the improved survival or premature babies, pioneering microsurgical techniques and developing pediatric heart and lung support systems for surgery in infants. More recently, the research efforts at the Institute have focused on exploring the very basis of human development as a route towards understanding the molecular cause of disease. The Children’s Medical Research Institute has led the way in gaining new insights into the mechanisms of cancer, in basic studies on the development of the brain, nerve and muscle cells and their function, in working towards new gene therapies and in exploring the molecular mechanism for the establishment of the blueprint for embryo development