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Children with genetic diseases and cancers will be given faster access to life-saving gene and cell therapies through a new commercial scale viral vector manufacturing facility in Western Sydney. The NSW government has called on industry and investors to submit expressions of interest to support the growth and operations of the facility, to be built in the Westmead Health and Innovation Distri...

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...

Professor Craig Munns was recruited as a Staff Specialist in paediatric bone disorders at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead (CHW) more than 17 years ago. At the time it was the only job of its kind in Australia, which made this step in his career a milestone. Since then, he’s built on what Professor Chris Cowell envisioned for the role and the department, to deliver what is now the premier paed...

A joint-study between UNSW and the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (SCHN) has revealed a rise in mental health services used by children and adolescents after Sydney’s first lockdown in 2020. The new research, published in The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific, compared admissions from January 2020 to February 2021 to hospital records between 2016 and 2019, to observe how the use of...