News & Events

Research
A study published in Pediatric Anaesthesia shows that children under four years of age exposed to anaesthesia have a greater risk of poorer development and lower scores on numeracy and reading scores. The more exposure to anaesthetics, the greater the risk, the study found. The finding is based on a data-linkage study of over 210,000 children in New South Wales, Australia. The researchers c...
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Gene therapy
Results of a Phase I Clinical Trial which employed genetic engineering technologies developed in-house at Kids Research have been published in Human Gene Therapy.  It is the first example of a group in Australia to succeed in safely manufacturing and using clinical-grade vectors. The research, initiated nearly twenty years ago by Dr Geoffrey McCowage, paediatric oncologist at Cancer Centr...
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Events
The Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit (APSU) is celebrating 25 years of research, advocacy and care for children living with rare conditions. The APSU was established in 1993 by Professor Elizabeth Elliott, and since then has been used by over 300 researchers and run 68 surveillance studies of uncommon childhood diseases, complications of common diseases or adverse effects of treatment....
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Research
Improving patient outcomes through innovative solutions is crucial to advancing translational medical research, where multidisciplinary collaboration can provide the key to advancing new discoveries.  A workshop hosted by the Westmead Institute for Medical Research earlier this week saw “rapid-fire” talks from clinicians, engineers and biomedical scientists to spark discussions between th...
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