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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

  • Magnussen, C, Saner, C, Burgner, D, Juonala, M, Sabin, M. Longitudinal association between NMR metabolomic lipid profiles and carotid intima-media thickness among youth with severe obesity. Atherosclerosis 379: s46 2023
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  • Zheng, M, Hesketh, KD, Vuillermin, P, Dodd, J, Wen, LM, Baur, LA, Taylor, R, Byrne, R, Mihrshahi, S, Burgner, D, et al. Understanding the pathways between prenatal and postnatal factors and overweight outcomes in early childhood: a pooled analysis of seven cohorts.. Int J Obes (Lond) 47(7) : 574 -582 2023
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  • Ravindra, D, Huang, G, Hallett, K, Burgner, DP, Gwee, A, Silva, MJ. Antibiotic Exposure and Dental Health: A Systematic Review.. Pediatrics 152(1) : 2023
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  • Saner, C, Senior, AM, Zhang, H, Eloranta, A-M, Magnussen, CG, Sabin, MA, Juonala, M, Janner, M, Burgner, DP, Schwab, U, et al. Evidence for protein leverage in a general population sample of children and adolescents.. Eur J Clin Nutr 77(6) : 652 -659 2023
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  • Ortiz-Fernández, L, Carmona, EG, Kerick, M, Lyons, P, Carmona, FD, López Mejías, R, Khor, CC, Grayson, PC, Tombetti, E, Jiang, L, et al. Identification of new risk loci shared across systemic vasculitides points towards potential target genes for drug repurposing.. Ann Rheum Dis 82(6) : 837 -847 2023
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