The Institute is presently engaged in several major research projects examining different aspects of nerve and muscle disease.

Each project has a set mission, timetable and budget allocation, and it is anticipated that the outcome of each project will advance the aims of the Institute from both a research and clinical perspective.

The current projects cover the following areas:

• identifying new forms of muscular dystrophy,
• unlocking the mystery of inherited congenital myopathies,
• studying the genes which influence athletic performance,
• determining the cause of a fatal neuropathy of infants,
• finding the gene for a new form of episodic weakness; and
• mapping the role of a natural anti-oxidant in peripheral neuropathy.

In conducting this research, the Institute calls upon and contributes to a network of Australian and International collaborators to enhance the effectiveness of each project.