Professor Justin Yerbury is a Eureka Prize winning molecular biologist at the University of Wollongong and a world leader in motor neurone disease research. He started his scientific career after losing several family members to MND and discovering that his family carried a rare genetic form of the disease. Justin began experiencing symptoms himself in 2016 and is now 99% paralysed, only able to communicate using eye-gaze technology, but he continues to search for a cure. He lives in Wollongong with his wife, and his two adult daughters live close by.
