What does research actually do?

How does clinical research work? Who decides what gets studied? And how does a discovery in the lab ever become a treatment in the clinic?

On 18 November at 3pm AEDT, our Scleroderma Research Friends community is joined live by Associate Professor Wendy Stevens, one of Australia’s leading voices in scleroderma care and a co-founding member of the Australian Scleroderma Interest Group, for a conversation hosted jointly with St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne.

Wendy has spent decades at the centre of scleroderma research, from establishing the national patient registry to leading international clinical trials. Wendy would like this session to be meaningful to you, so submit your questions now and she’ll do her best to answer them live.

This blog post was developed in partnership with Scleroderma Australia as part of the ResearchFriends community communications program. This is a research deep dive, not a forum for personal medical advice.Find current scleroderma clinical trials in Australia at the Scleroderma Australia TrialFinder.