Dr Yewlan Wanigasekara-Mohotti, under the supervision of Professor Janet Keast, has been awarded the SCA Fellowship. Dr Wanigasekara-Mohotti’s project is titled Investigation of the mechanisms of aberrant sensory afferent neuron sprouting causing autonomic nervous system dysfunction after spinal cord injury.

This project, to the value of $40,000 pa for two years (2004-2005), has allowed Dr Wanigasekara to further expand her knowledge of the central nervous system control of the autonomic nervous system, as well as explore the new area of spinal injuries and axon guidance.