[visionlist] Support for an "honorary" member of the vision science community for brain cancer treatments

[Guido Maiello]

Dear colleagues and friends,

I am writing to ask for your help with a personal matter regarding my partner Sara Joy Hawkins. Sara is a researcher in olfaction science and immunology, but she is an "honorary" member of sorts in the vision science community, as she is a co-author on the following project (ECVP presentation and submitted preprint):

Maiello, G., Dehn, K., Hartmann, F.T., Morgenstern, Y., Hawkins, S.J., Offner, T., Walter, J., Hassenklöver, T., Manzini, I., & Fleming, R.W. (2023) Human shape perception spontaneously discovers the biological origin of never-before-seen stimuli. ECVP 2023 45th European Conference on Visual Perception, Paphos, Cyprus - August 27 - 31, 2023

Dehn, K. I., Maiello, G., Hartmann, F. T., Morgenstern, Y., Hawkins, S. J., Offner, T., Walter, J., Hassenklöver, T., Manzini, I., & Fleming, R. W. (2024). Human shape perception spontaneously discovers the biological origin of novel, but natural, stimuli. bioRxiv, 2024-12. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.21.629735

Sara has been dealing with a malignant brain cancer since 2019. Unfortunately, we learned in November that the cancer has recurred for a second time. Right now, we are coordinating treatment across two medical teams-one in the UK and one in Germany. I am thus raising funds to help coordinate Sara's care, cover housing and transportation costs during treatments in different countries, and incorporate immunotherapy into her range of options.

I started a fundraiser on GoFundMe and it would mean so much if you could take a look at it. I know many of you have donated already, and I am hugely grateful. If you can, please also consider sharing the campaign link across any channels you think might be appropriate (Twitter/X, Bluesky, Facebook, LinkedIn, email, etc). I know some of you have large social media following, and the wider the reach, the better.

https://gofund.me/22b6f44b

Thank you kindly for taking the time to read this message and for any support you can give.

All the best,

Guido


Dr. Guido Maiello
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Lecturer
School of Psychology | University of Southampton

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website: guidomaiello.com<https://www.guidomaiello.com/>


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