The Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) has named childhood obesity as one of its priority research areas.

The Multidisciplinary Paediatric Obesity and Weight Research Group (M_POWR) has brought together a full range of specialists in children’s health to determine how to tackle this problem. It links obesity researchers across the Institute with clinicians throughout the Royal Children’s Hospital. M_POWR’s vision is to conduct cutting-edge research to:

• Prevent child and adolescent obesity
• Understand the risks for child obesity including environmental, genetic and lifestyle factors
• Find out who develops early complications and why
• Treat obesity effectively and prevent its complications

We want these advances to be available to all children and adolescents who need them.

Investigators coordinating the M_POWR group are:

Matthew Sabin Early Development & Disease

Richard Saffery Early Development & Disease

Melissa Wake Healthy Development