News & Events

  • 16 August 2021
Award
Professor Allison Tong, Co-Leader of Centre for Kidney Research Clinical Research group at Kids Research, Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network and Principal Research Fellow at the University of Sydney’s School of Public Health has been awarded the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Elizabeth Blackburn Investigator Grant Award. The prestigious award recognises and celebrates he...
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  • 11 March 2021
Kidney Research
Kidney disease impacts 1.7 million Australians each year, with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) being the most common form of kidney disease. CKD is a condition characterized by a gradual loss of kidney function over time. CKD is increasingly recognised as a major burden on our health systems and even more so on those affected by it. Over 50% of childhood kidney disease has a genetic cause. Until...
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  • 21 December 2020
Advanced Therapeutics
We are Australia's leaders in Paediatric Gene Therapy.  Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (SCHN) is the largest network of hospitals and services for children in Australia. Along with our Luminesce Alliance (LA) partners, we are national leaders in diagnostic, data and disease modelling research, with the knowledge and expertise that will be required to develop, evaluate...
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Grant Success
Kids Research, Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network is delighted to announce the tremendous success of our researchers in the latest National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator Grant and Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) round. Together with University of Sydney (USYD) and University of New South Wales (UNSW), more than $13.8...
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Patient navigators
A clinical trial for children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) will help address health inequities experienced by children with CKD from low socioeconomic backgrounds. The trial received funding under a national program of the Medical Research Futures Fund to boost clinical trial activities into rare cancers, rare diseases and unmet needs. Subject to receiving all ethics and regulatory a...
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Publications
A recent study published in Paediatric Nephrology has shown that children who receive a kidney transplant are more likely to need a blood transfusion following surgery if they have low pre-transplant haemoglobin levels. Blood transfusions following a transplant can cause adverse reactions, including increasing the chance of rejection of the donor kidney, stimulated by an immune response to don...
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Awards
Congratulations to Associate Professor Germaine Wong, who has received an NHMRC Excellence Award for her research in improving the health of children and young people with chronic kidney disease. A/Prof. Wong is a transplant nephrologist at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and researcher with the Centre for Kidney Research at Kids Research and the University of Sydney. Kidney disease is a d...
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Awards
Congratulations to Associate Professor Germaine Wong and Dr Geoff Zhang from the Centre of Kidney Research (CKR), who have received awards at the recent meeting of The Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand in Melbourne. Associate Professor Wong received the prestigious Ian McKenzie Award for outstanding leadership in transplantation.  As a transplant nephrologist at The Chi...
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