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Prof Chris Cowell: His legacy to research and child health
Researcher Profile
After more than a decade as Director of Research for the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (SCHN), Professor Chris Cowell has decided to trade in his busy work days for a well-earned retirement in the country. With a passion for his role and the future of research, his impact on SCHN has spanned 40 years, beginning at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children in 1982. In that time he has dri...
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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...
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World-First – Youngest child undergoes own cord blood reinfusion to determine potential to prevent type 1 diabetes
  • 09 January 2017
A 20 month old Australian girl will be reinfused with her own umbilical cord blood today to determine whether it will delay or prevent the onset of type 1 diabetes.   For the CORD study (Cord Reinfusion in Diabetes), which is being conducted through the Kids Research Institute at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead,  Lucy, will be the youngest child - from more than 100 children...
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Trial to prevent or delay Type 1 diabetes with child's own cord blood
  • 09 January 2017
Twenty month old Lucy Hinchion has become the world's youngest child to be reinfused with her own umbilical cord blood in an attempt to prevent or delay the onset of type 1 diabetes. Lucy underwent the infusion  as part of the CORD study (Cord Reinfusion in Diabetes), which is being conducted through the Kids Research Institute at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead. The CORD study, wh...
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Obesity Trends - new research
  • 13 May 2016
SEVERE OBESITY AFFECTING MORE AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN THAN FIRST THOUGHT, NEW RESEARCH FINDS The findings, published today in Trends in the Prevalence of Morbid and Severe Obesity in Australian Children Aged 7-15 Years (1985-2012), highlight a growing concern from paediatric obesity experts about the extent of the issue.  “The numbers on how many Australian children have severe obesity hav...
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World first cord blood infusion to prevent or delay type1 diabetes
  • 30 June 2015
World first for T1 diabetes
Four-year-old Isla is the first person in the world  be reinfused with her own umbilical cord blood to determine whether it will delay or prevent the onset of type 1 diabetes. Led by Professor Maria Craig, the CoRD study is being conducted through Kids Research Institute, at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead. Isla, from Western Australia, is the first child - from more than 100 chi...
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Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia

Bright Alliance, Level 8
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Randwick, NSW 2031, Australia

General Enquires

T: +61 2 9845 1400
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E: schn-research@health.nsw.gov.au

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