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18 August 2017

Commitment to equity and fairness, as well as years of hard work has seen Louisa Di Pietro from the Genetic...

16 August 2017

A treatment for deadly peanut allergy undergoing clinical trials at the Murdoch Children's Research...

11 August 2017

Study HighlightsChildren from socially and economically disadvantaged families and neighbourhoods appear...

07 August 2017

Mitochondrial diseases are devastating conditions affecting babies, older children and adults. UK baby...

04 August 2017

Cameron McKnight is a Master of Biomedical Science student within the Mitochondrial Research group at MCRI,...

02 August 2017

A/Prof Steer has led a series of landmark studies that have achieved astonishing results controlling...

01 August 2017

New research has found that caffeine given to very preterm babies in their first weeks of life...

20 July 2017

The longitudinal study looked at three groups of children – neonates (before 30 days), pre-school (30...

14 July 2017

Andrew, Director of MCRI's Infection and Immunity theme, was awarded as the top ranked applicant for the...

13 July 2017

The study of 224 Australian children aged between 5 and 11 was the largest study to date to examine the...

12 July 2017

The longitudinal study, the Victorian Adolescent Health Cohort Study, was the first in the world to...

07 July 2017

The new results, published in Academic Pediatrics, showed that the high level of frequent bullying is...

05 July 2017

Dr Jocelyn Chan is a PhD student within the Pneumococcal Research group at MCRI, which is part of our...

04 July 2017

The new collaboration between the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) and the Liggins Institute,...

03 July 2017

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MCRI Student Life – Q&A with PhD Student Jocelyn Chan

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