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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

  • Mansell, T, Magnussen, C, Nuotio, J, Laitinen, T, Harcourt, B, Bekkering, S, McCallum, Z, Kao, K-T, Sabin, M, Juonala, M, et al. Increasing severity of obesity from early to late adolescence associates with longitudinal metabolomic changes implicated in cardiovascular disease risk. 2024
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  • Mansell, T, Vlahos, A, Collier, F, Ponsonby, A-L, Vuillermin, P, Ellul, S, Tang, M, Burgner, D, Saffery, R. Relationships between maternal factors, gestational age, sex, mode of delivery and gestational diabetes with the neonatal metabolome. 2024
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  • Licciardi, P, Wurzel, D, Neeland, M, Anderson, J, Abo, Y-N, Do, LAH, Donato, C, Bines, J, Toh, ZQ, Higgins, R, et al. Immune Responses in an Infant with Congenital Heart Disease and Severe COVID-19. 2024
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  • Noye, EC, Bekkering, S, Limawan, AP, Nguyen, MU, Widiasmoko, LK, Lu, H, Pepe, S, Cheung, MM, Menheniott, TR, Wallace, MJ, et al. Postnatal inflammation in Apoe−/− mice is associated with immune training and atherosclerosis. 2024
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  • Berry, CD, Saunders, T, McMinn, A, Tosif, S, Shanthikumar, S, Vandeleur, M, Harrison, J, Burgner, D, Ranganathan, S, Crawford, N, et al. Is Cardiorespiratory Disease associated with increased susceptibility of SARS-CoV-2 in Children?. 2024
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