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HRI wins Silver in PRIA Golden Target Awards

Posted 17th December, 2021

A fundraising appeal by the Heart Research Institute (HRI) has won Silver in the Golden Target Awards, run by the Public Relations Institute of Australia (PRIA).

Help prevent heart attack was HRI’s end of tax year appeal featuring Professor Roland Stocker and his Arterial Inflammation and Redox Biology team. The team are working to create a world-first diagnostic test to help identify and potentially treat people who are at a high risk of heart attack due to the presence of unstable plaque. The ‘early-warning’ system not only detects when someone is at higher risk of a heart attack, but also highlights physically the area where the unstable plaque is present.

The campaign featured athlete and father Matt, who at just 40 experienced a severe heart attack and was rushed to hospital for life-saving emergency surgery.

Header image L-R: HRI team members Siobhan Hanbury-Aggs, Hester Stuart and Betty Loi at the PRIA Golden Target Awards

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