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World-first breakthrough offers missing link for birth defects and miscarriages

14 August 2017

A simple dietary supplement could prevent hundreds of babies from being miscarried or being born with birth defects, a world-first study has found. The ground-breaking research, which was conducted at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute and led by Professor Sally Dunwoodie, has not only identified that a deficiency in a vital molecule, known as NAD, is a major cause of miscarriages and...

Building works

13 July 2017

Stage One of the KRI building works is making excellent progress. Twenty- two staff enjoyed a tour last week of a very empty floor space but, to the excitement of the KRI Project Team, framing up for the meeting rooms has commenced. Stage One is refurbished office and meeting rooms. Stage Two is the new clinical trials centre.

PAEDS turns 10

13 July 2017

PAEDS (Paediatric Active Enhanced Surveillance) is celebrating its 10th year of national hospital based active surveillance of vaccine preventable diseases. PAEDS is now led by NCIRS, having been started as a joint initiative between NCIRS and APSU in 2007. PAEDS held a 10 Year Anniversary Showcase in Melbourne last week to illustrate the PAEDS approach to monitoring and investigating se...

First effective treatment of children with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease

11 July 2017

The results of a randomised trial to evaluate progressive resistance exercise for children and adolescents with CMT published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health showed a difference in strength between the exercise group and the other group was 30% Among a myriad of motor and sensory impairments, foot and ankle weakness is the most debilitating problem for children with CMT. Muscle wea...

Kids newly diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes should be screened for celiac disease

10 July 2017

New research led by Maria Craig, a Professor of Paediatrics at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and the University of Sydney, discovered a high prevalence of celiac disease in the early stages of diabetes in young people. The link had been identified previously. Type 1 diabetes occurs when the pancreas cannot produce insulin which can lead to being excessively thirsty, fatigue, blurre...

Two steps forward in chemotherapy protection

30 June 2017

The ability to treat patients with highly toxic chemotherapy drugs without damaging healthy cells has posed a challenge for oncology staff for a long time. Working collaboratively in our purpose-built Gene and Cellular Medicine Facility – one of the first in Australia – our internationally recognised gene therapists, molecular biologists and bio-informaticians successfully demonstrated in labo...

New research to help reduce radiation exposure in children

23 June 2017

Head injuries are one of the most common reasons children present in the emergency department. To rule out a serious brain injury, some children require a CT scan. For serious head injuries the decision to perform a CT can be straightforward, however for less severe injuries determining whether a CT scan is warranted has posed a challenge. Balancing the need to accurately diagn...

Childhood cancers defy current understanding

22 June 2017

Cancer is still surprising researchers, making the pathway to urgently-needed new treatments more difficult to predict. A combined team of researchers from Kids Reasearch Institute and Children’s Medical Research Institute (CMRI) studied an aggressive category of neuroblastoma, which is the most common solid cancer of childhood, and made a very surprising discovery that transforms our...

One step closer to helping cure genetic diseases

22 June 2017

An important discovery published in Nature Genetics will make gene therapy--which is already helping to cure genetic diseases--safer and more effective for children. The discovery by Prof Ian Alexander, Head of the Gene Therapy Research Unit, a joint initiative of CMRI and Kids Research Institute, and his team will help improve gene therapy in the future. in key organs such a...

Meditech innovation acceleration

13 June 2017

The Medical Device Commercialisation Training Program (MDCPT) bridges the gap between the development of medical devices and their commercialisation. Tegan Cheng, manager of the EPIC 3D Orthopaedic Lab, was selected to join this 12 week course where ground breaking meditech innovations are accelerated. Cicada Innovations, Australia’s only ‘super incubator’ delivers the program in c...

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