Australian Grandparents Donate Millions to Medicinal Cannabis Research
When Barry and Joy Lambert donated nearly $34 million to the University of Sydney for medicinal cannabis research last year, they were hailed as Australia’s most generous grandparents.
But there is a very real pain behind their generosity.
Their four-year-old granddaughter, Katelyn, suffers from Dravet Syndrome, a potentially fatal childhood epilepsy condition.
Since she was six months old, Katelyn has suffered from agonising, debilitating seizures. One occurred in a hospital emergency room and lasted more than two hours, with doctors powerless to stop it.
It was this cruel condition, and memories of the loss of their own young daughter to another rare condition decades ago, that spurred the Lamberts to make one of the largest medical donations in Australian history when Mr Lambert sold his business Count Financial to the Commonwealth Bank for more than $370 million last year.
That money has been used to establish what is now the...
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