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06 February 2018
Rett syndrome research

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Dr Wendy Gold, Kids Research, has received a generous donation of $10,000 from the Rett Syndrome Association of Australia (RSAA), to further her group’s work on the genetic disease. Wendy's primary research goal is to better understand the molecular genetics of Rett syndrome, which is seen almost always in girls. She hopes to find a way to halt the onset of this disease. Rett syndro...

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...

NHRMC grant success

22 December 2016

Researchers from both Kids Research Institute at The Children's Hospital at Westmead and Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick were succesful in NHMRC grants. The outcome for 2016 was excellent, The success rate was 20%, well above the national average of 15.2%. NHMRC fellowships and grants 2016  People Support: Scholarships & Fellowships Inves...

NSW Government grants $1.54 million for genetics research

04 May 2016
genetics

genome sequencing grants

Five research teams at the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network have received a significant funding boost to their projects as part of the NSW Government’s 2015/16 Genomics Collaborative Grants Program. SCHN researchers received five of six project grants in the funding announcement delivered by Minister for Medical Research Pru Goward and NSW Premier Mike Baird at the Garvan’s Kinghorn Centre...

Finding the answer in Isa’s genes

04 August 2014
Patient's Story

Isa's Story

Little Isa Al Boush is one of only two children in the world with a particularly unusual form of a mitochondrial respiratory chain disorder, complex III deficiency. Using sophisticated gene sequencing techniques, researchers at Kids Research Institute discovered a new gene which causes his disorder. Isa was just five months old when he first got sick. He developed a fever and within minutes wa...

At long last – a correct diagnosis for Brandon

04 August 2014
Patient's Story

Genomics

Many families whose children have a rare genetic disease wait years for an accurate diagnosis. For the Keesing family, new genetic sequencing techniques led to an unexpected diagnosis that has changed their lives. Brandon was just six months old when his chest problems started. For several years he was hospitalised repeatedly with pneumonia and experts at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead di...

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