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Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) is deeply saddened by the passing of Dame Marie Bashir AC CVO, an extraordinary Australian and a cherished member of the MCRI community. Dame Marie was an inaugural member of MCRI’s Council of Ambassadors, serving with dedication until 30 June 2018.
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute Professor John Carlin has been awarded the Pitman Medal for his contribution to the discipline of statistics. Professor Carlin was presented with the medal by the Statistical Society of Australia in recognition of a career spanning more than 35 years in the
Children having to follow restrictive diets due to their food allergy has been linked to an increased risk of eating disorders. The first investigation of its kind to explore the prevalence of eating disorders among children and adults with food allergy – published in the Journal of Allergy &
The data informing the return of students to classrooms in Victoria and measures to keep schools COVID safe have been outlined in a new brief by the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI). The MCRI COVID-19 research brief details how, during the Delta wave in Australia, most COVID-19
LifeCourse is creating a healthy start to life is vital to reduce disease risk later in life, and close the gaps created by social and economic inequities. The LifeCourse initiative builds on Murdoch Children’s Research Institute's strength in population health to propel new research giving
Murdoch Children's Research Institute’s Professor Mimi Tang and Professor George Patton are among the most highly cited researchers in the world in 2022. The Highly Cited Researchers 2022 list from Clarivate celebrates researchers ranked in the top 1 per cent in the Web of Science citation
Our Social stream supports the development of projects where impact is realised directly through the community and enables the translation of rich research content and insights to inform initiatives implemented in the home, schools or other community settings.
The researchers assessed the relationships between hundreds of 16-year-old girls and their parents, and then interviewed the same girls more than a decade later when they became mothers, finding teen-parent bonding problems were a strong predictor of later infant bonding issues.The study, recently
Testing new treatments for genetic skeletal disorders and improving rapid diagnoses for neurogenetic disorders are among the Murdoch Children's Research Institute projects to secure new Federal Government researcher grants. Associate Professor Shireen Lamande and Professor Paul Lockhart have
Researchers have revealed the key factors that can improve outcomes in children with ADHD, a disorder that costs Australia AUD$18 billion a year in social and economic losses. Research, led by the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and published in Pediatrics, highlighted the importance of
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