Fighter moms support vital research into mitochondrial diseases

Describing science through simple stories and metaphors helped Brendan Battersby, a University of Helsinki research director in mitochondrial biology, connect with the parents of a child with Leigh Syndrome, which led to a new collaboration on research funding. The family felt that Brendan was the first medical expert who'd explained their child's disease to them in terms they could really understand. Read more about the meeting, collaboration, and research here.

Brendan is a regular participant in our NeuWrite Nordic workshops, an adviser to the project, and was one of the driving forces in getting a NeuWrite branch set up in the Nordic region.