​Treatment for a rare and currently incurable autoimmune disease has been given a major boost thanks to a $10 million bequest made to The Australian National University (ANU). 
 
The $10 million comes from Jenny and Bruce Pryor, who both passed away in 2017, and is the largest bequest the University has ever received.  
 
The money will establish the Jenny and Bruce Pryor Research Fellowship at the ANU Centre for Personalised Immunology and be used to research dermatomyositis - which Jenny suffered from in her later years.

​ANU will strengthen its role as a leading centre for personalised medicine following the announcement of $7.3 million in funding from the ACT Government to set up a new centre, Canberra Clinical Genomics.

Canberra Clinical Genomics will be a partnership between ANU and ACT Health and will work to cure patients with complex diseases by sequencing their genome and finding treatments that are personalised to their condition.