Thank you for helping us to support everyone to live longer and healthier lives

When we launched our campaign to support Dr Raffi Gugasyan’s work on inflammageing (low-level inflammation that shapes how we age), we hoped you would share our belief that this research could open up new opportunities for people to live stronger, healthier lives as they age.

And you did! Thanks to generous donors like you, we raised over $200,000 to advance this groundbreaking project – and we can’t thank you enough. 

We are especially grateful to our generous supporter Jenny T, who pledged to match the first $50,000 donated by our community with a gift of her own. Thanks to your extraordinary response, that milestone was reached in just two weeks – unlocking Jenny’s gift, doubling the impact
of every dollar given, and creating incredible momentum for the campaign.

Already, your contributions are supporting our talented researchers and funding the laboratory equipment and data access they need to continue their research into inflammageing.

As Raffi reminds us, “We tend to think of ageing as something that happens later in life, but the biological processes that drive it begin much, much earlier.”

By understanding those changes, researchers hope to find new ways to prevent disease before it develops, improve quality of life over time, and help more people remain healthy, active and independent as they grow older.

In other words, you’re helping change what it means to grow old – so that more of us can continue living the lives we love as we age.

From everyone at Burnet Institute – and especially Raffi and his team – thank you for believing in this research. We hope you’ll enjoy this special thankyou message from Raffi, where he explains how your support is making a difference.

Watch a message of thanks from Raffi