SAHMRI employee and leukaemia survivor, Joanne Dart, sits down with her treating physician and SAHMRI colleague, Professor David Yeung to share her inspiring story. There were no warning signs leading up to Jo's shock acute lymphoblastic leukaemia diagnosis in 2010. At the age of 44 she was forced to drop everything and spend four harrowing months in hospital. Jo was one Professor Yeung's first patients, and the two still have a connection to this day. Working in a clinicial role at the RAH and researcher at SAHMRI gives David a dual lens through which to focus on improving treatment efficacy while reducing side effects for patients living with various forms of leukaemia. Jo took a job on SAHMRI's accounting team a few years ago, seeing it as an opportunity to give back to medical research, which says is the reason she's alive today.