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Role Group Leader / Principal Research Fellow
Professor David Burgner is a practising paediatric infectious diseases physician, leads the Inflammatory Origins Group and co-leads the LifeCourse longitudinal observational cohorts initiative at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. He holds major national and international clinical / research positions including leadership roles in ASID, ESPID, WSPID and is an AAHMS fellow.

Professor Burgner is an international authority on understanding the susceptibility and consequences to childhood infection and inflammation, particularly in relation to the development of cardiometabolic disease risk. He is an internationally recognised clinical and scientific leader in Kawasaki disease and has made major scientific, clinical and policy contributions to the Australian response to the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly the hyperinflammatory post-infectious syndrome (known as PIMS-TS or MIS-C) in children.
Professor David Burgner is a practising paediatric infectious diseases physician, leads the Inflammatory Origins Group and co-leads the LifeCourse longitudinal observational cohorts initiative at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. He holds major...
Professor David Burgner is a practising paediatric infectious diseases physician, leads the Inflammatory Origins Group and co-leads the LifeCourse longitudinal observational cohorts initiative at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. He holds major national and international clinical / research positions including leadership roles in ASID, ESPID, WSPID and is an AAHMS fellow.

Professor Burgner is an international authority on understanding the susceptibility and consequences to childhood infection and inflammation, particularly in relation to the development of cardiometabolic disease risk. He is an internationally recognised clinical and scientific leader in Kawasaki disease and has made major scientific, clinical and policy contributions to the Australian response to the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly the hyperinflammatory post-infectious syndrome (known as PIMS-TS or MIS-C) in children.

Top Publications

  • Burugupalli, S, Smith, AAT, Olshansky, G, Huynh, K, Giles, C, Paul, S, Nguyen, A, Duong, T, Mellett, N, Cinel, M, et al. Ontogeny of plasma lipid metabolism in pregnancy and early childhood: a longitudinal population study. 2024
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  • Mir, SA, Chen, L, Burugupalli, S, Burla, B, Ji, S, Smith, AAT, Narasimhan, K, Ramasamy, A, Tan, KM-L, Huynh, K, et al. Developmental and Intergenerational Landscape of Human Circulatory Lipidome and its Association with Obesity Risk. 2024
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  • Toh, ZQ, Anderson, J, Mazarakis, N, Neeland, M, Higgins, RA, Rautenbacher, K, Dohle, K, Nguyen, J, Overmars, I, Donato, C, et al. Reduced seroconversion in children compared to adults with mild COVID-19. 2024
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  • Mansell, T, Saffery, R, Burugupalli, S, Ponsonby, A-L, Tang, ML, O’Hely, M, Bekkering, S, Smith, AA, Rowland, R, Ranganathan, S, et al. Early life infection and proinflammatory, atherogenic metabolomic and lipidomic profiles at 12 months of age: a population-based cohort study. 2024
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  • Elhakeem, A, Taylor, AE, Inskip, HM, Huang, J, Tafflet, M, Vinther, JL, Asta, F, Erkamp, JS, Gagliardi, L, Guerlich, K, et al. Association of assisted reproductive technology with offspring growth and adiposity from infancy to early adulthood. 2024
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