MCT8 Research Project

Project Member(s): Milthorpe, B.

Funding or Partner Organisation: The Trustee for Sherman Foundation

Start year: 2014

Summary: This project undertakes and coordinates research into the characterisation, causes and treatments for a rare genetic disease of the thyroid hormone transporting protein MCT8.

Keywords: monocarboxylase transporter 8, genetic diseases, rare diseases

FOR Codes: Nervous System and Disorders, Care for Disabled, Inherited Diseases (incl. Gene Therapy), Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Neurosciences, People with disability, Clinical health

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.