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Cancer
One of the main problems with chemotherapy for children with brain cancer is that the drugs damage the bone marrow. Researchers at the Kids Research Institute have been working for 10 years to develop a radical new treatment which uses gene therapy to stop this from happening. If successful, the technique will enable children to receive much higher drug doses than they can currently tolerate –...
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Bailey's Story
Each year, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead performs a third to half of all paediatric kidney transplants in Australia. A major focus of the Kids Research Institute is to find ways to make transplantation better. A kidney transplant saved six year old Bailey Haber’s life – but, like any transplant patient, he has to take medication every day to stop his body rejecting th...
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The Kids Research Institute has approximately 300 researchers and support staff. Our passionate team of world-class researchers are dedicated to improving the lives of children with many illnesses including cancer, bone diseases, genetic conditions, diabetes, infectious diseases, neuromuscular conditions, rare diseases, sleep disorders, kidney and liver disease. Our research involves basic sci...
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