 Hi, I'm Mary Tulkas and I'm an ARC Future Fellow in the School of Health and Biomedical Sciences at RMIT University. My team and I are very honoured to have been awarded a 2022 Brain Foundation Research Grant and would like to thank the Foundation and the generous donors. Our project aims to develop patient-specific brain organoids, or mini brains grown in a dish, using stem cells isolated from infants at high risk of cerebral palsy due to being born preterm. Using these brain organoids, we will characterise the cellular processes that occur in the brain in the development of cerebral palsy, in the hope that one day these brain organoids can be used as a tool to screen new therapies.