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Network leads gene therapy education program

23 March 2022
Grant success

Grant Success

Kids Research would like to congratulate Dr Michelle Lorentzos, Clinical Trials Lead at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, for receiving a Pfizer Global Medical Grant. The grant has been awarded for her project “Multidisciplinary Gene Therapy Education - Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus (rAAV)” which is a multidisciplinary approach to education regarding AAV gene therapy in Australia. “...

Meet Dr Paula Bray

07 March 2022
Researcher Profile

International Women's Day

Dr Paula Bray is the Acting Director of Research for the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network (SCHN). As a member of the executive team, she works to lead, monitor and evaluate research ensuring careful alignment with SCHN strategic and operational plans and is responsible for leading research strategy, research governance, policy and operations. With a drive for solving complex problems, resea...

International Women's Day: Facing the challenge to #BreakTheBias

04 March 2022
Researcher Profile

International Women's Day

Today on this International Women's Day we are recognising the incredible achievements of women in all of their diversities. This day of celebration is also a day of action, where we can raise awareness about the inequalities faced by women and girls and acknowledge what needs to be done. This year we are being challenged to break the bias and imagine a gender equal world. We've spok...

Experimental labs: Today’s research, tomorrow’s cure

23 February 2022
Experimental laboratory

Kids Research labs

At Kids Research the goal is clear, to understand and find cures for all conditions affecting children and adolescents. A goal given more meaning by the location of Kids Research on the doorstep of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead. Breakthroughs in diagnosis and treatment often begin in the experimental labs, where drugs, chemicals and other types of biological matter are analysed and teste...

Clinical Trials Day 2021: words from a research nurse

19 May 2021

Clinical Trials

International Clinical Trials Day is celebrated around the world in May to acknowledge and celebrate the many people who are involved in clinical trials. It is also a unique opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of clinical trials and clinical research as a career option – among the greater public. Learn more about Clinical Trials Day here Read the words written by Aimee Williams...

Watch: Advanced Therapeutics webinar - Ocular Gene & Cell Therapies

05 May 2021

Webinar Series

Watch the video of this webinar to hear from two experts in the fields of genetic retinal diseases and stem cell biology discuss Ocular Gene and Cell Therapies and the tremendous new hope they bring to the treatment of these retinal diseases. Ocular Gene Therapy is the first in vivo gene therapy approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) here in Australia for clinical use...

Webinar series: Ocular Gene & Cell Therapies - the new frontier of vision research & treatment

01 April 2021

Webinar Series

Registration now open! Register now and join our 3rd webinar of the Advanced Therapeutics series. In this webinar, we will be focusing on Ocular Gene Therapy, the first in vivo gene therapy approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) here in Australia for clinical use in inherited retinal diseases. Inherited retinal diseases are a group of conditions that disproportionately affect c...

Educational Webinar Series: The future with CAR-T cell therapy

09 February 2021

Webinar Series

We are back with our series of webinars which explores the way Advanced Therapeutics is driving clinicians and researchers to prepare for a new wave of therapies, revolutionising the future of paediatric health care. Register now and hear from two esteemed leaders in the field of paediatric cancer and pioneers in CAR-T cell therapy. Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T cell therapy is the most th...

SCHN researchers successful in latest NHMRC funding round

15 December 2020
Grant success

Grant Success

Kids Research, Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network is happy to announce that our researchers were awarded a total of more than $2.17M through the University of Sydney in the latest National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Ideas Grants round. The grants awarded will fund research into neurology, clinical nutrition and gene therapy. NHMRC’s Ideas Grant scheme aims to support innovati...

Women in Research: AFR 100 Women of Influence Winners

23 October 2019

Awards

Professor Julie Leask, social scientist and professor in the Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Sydney and Professional Fellow at the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS) has been named as the overall winner in the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence awards; and Associate Professor Tracey O’Brien, Director of the Kids Ca...

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