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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

  • Juonala, M, Ellul, S, Lawlor, DA, Santos Ferreira, DL, Carlin, JB, Cheung, M, Dwyer, T, Wake, M, Saffery, R, Burgner, DP. A Cross-Cohort Study Examining the Associations of Metabolomic Profile and Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Children and Their Parents: The Child Health CheckPoint Study and Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children.. J Am Heart Assoc 8(14) : e011852 2019
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  • Hu, M, Eviston, D, Hsu, P, Mariño, E, Chidgey, A, Santner-Nanan, B, Wong, K, Richards, JL, Yap, YA, Collier, F, et al. Decreased maternal serum acetate and impaired fetal thymic and regulatory T cell development in preeclampsia.. Nat Commun 10(1) : 3031 2019
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  • Ellul, S, Wake, M, Clifford, SA, Lange, K, Würtz, P, Juonala, M, Dwyer, T, Carlin, JB, Burgner, DP, Saffery, R. Metabolomics: population epidemiology and concordance in Australian children aged 11-12 years and their parents.. BMJ Open 9(Suppl 3) : 106 -117 2019
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  • Liu, RS, Dunn, S, Grobler, AC, Lange, K, Becker, D, Goldsmith, G, Carlin, JB, Juonala, M, Wake, M, Burgner, DP. Carotid artery intima-media thickness, distensibility and elasticity: population epidemiology and concordance in Australian children aged 11-12 years old and their parents.. BMJ Open 9(Suppl 3) : 23 -33 2019
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  • Larkins, NG, Kim, S, Carlin, JB, Grobler, AC, Burgner, DP, Lange, K, Craig, JC, Wake, M. Albuminuria: population epidemiology and concordance in Australian children aged 11-12 years and their parents.. BMJ Open 9(Suppl 3) : 75 -84 2019
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