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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

  • Currie, AJ, Curtis, S, Strunk, T, Riley, K, Liyanage, K, Prescott, S, Doherty, D, Simmer, K, Richmond, P, Burgner, D. Preterm infants have deficient monocyte and lymphocyte cytokine responses to group B streptococcus.. Infect Immun 79(4) : 1588 -1596 2011
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  • Lucas, M, Nicol, P, McKinnon, E, Whidborne, R, Lucas, A, Thambiran, A, Burgner, D, Waring, J, French, M. Author's reply. Thorax 66(3) : 265 2011
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  • Shimizu, C, Jain, S, Davila, S, Hibberd, ML, Lin, KO, Molkara, D, Frazer, JR, Sun, S, Baker, AL, Newburger, JW, et al. Transforming growth factor-beta signaling pathway in patients with Kawasaki disease.. Circ Cardiovasc Genet 4(1) : 16 -25 2011
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  • Rye, MS, Bhutta, MF, Cheeseman, MT, Burgner, D, Blackwell, JM, Brown, SDM, Jamieson, SE. Unraveling the genetics of otitis media: from mouse to human and back again.. Mamm Genome 22(1-2) : 66 -82 2011
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  • Webster, RJ, Carter, KW, Warrington, NM, Loh, AM, Zaloumis, S, Kuijpers, TW, Palmer, LJ, Burgner, DP. Hospitalisation with infection, asthma and allergy in Kawasaki disease patients and their families: genealogical analysis using linked population data.. PLoS One 6(11) : e28004 2011
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