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Kids Research Institute Digital Image Competition

08 August 2016

The Kids Research Institute will again be hosting a Digital Image Competition in The Children's Hospital for Westmead Galleria for 2016 National Science Week. The competition will run from 15-21 August to showcase the diversity and depth of medical and scientific research that takes place at the Kids Research Institute and clinical departments in the hospital. We are keen to engage...

Leading Cancer Researchers Honoured

11 August 2015
Leading Cancer Researchers Honoured

Two teams from the Children’s Cancer Research Unit at Kids Research Institute, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, were honoured at the 2015 Premier's Awards for Outstanding Cancer Research. A/Prof Dan Catchpoole was awarded the Big Data, Big Impact Award ($60,000), and Dr Geoff McCowage, Dr Belinda Kramer and Prof Ian Alexander were awarded the Excellence in Translational Cancer Research Awa...

2015 Premier’s Awards Success

10 August 2015

Two teams from the Children’s Cancer Research Unit at Kids Research Institute received awards at the 2015 Premier's Awards for Outstanding Cancer Research. Dan Catchpoole and colleagues from UTS and UWS were awarded the Big Data, Big Impact award ($60,000), and Geoff McCowage, Belinda Kramer and Ian Alexander were awarded the Excellence in Translational Cancer Research Award ($20,000) The d...

Gene therapy to make cells invincible against chemotherapy

04 August 2014
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Cancer

One of the main problems with chemotherapy for children with brain cancer is that the drugs damage the bone marrow. Researchers at the Kids Research Institute have been working for 10 years to develop a radical new treatment which uses gene therapy to stop this from happening. If successful, the technique will enable children to receive much higher drug doses than they can currently tolerate –...

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