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Two Murdoch Children’s Research Institute researchers have been recognised for their research that aims to prevent and better treat bacterial pneumonia in children in the South Pacific and Asia.Dr Elissavet Nikolaou and Eleanor Neal received the Robert Austrian Research Awards at the
Professor Kathryn North AC, Director of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, has announced its infectious disease researchers are preparing to roll-out a multi-center randomised controlled clinical trial of the BCG vaccine against COVID-19. The trial has been
LEAD levels in the blood of pre-school children have dropped overall, but those living in houses 50 years or more old, or those living in proximity to a lead-producing source have higher levels, according to the authors of research published online today by the Medical Journal of
Q.1. My two year old son only says a handful of words. My friends’ children who are a similar age use many more words than him and talk in sentences. Should I be worried? A. There is wide variation in the age children start to talk. For example, while some 2-year olds may have no words, others
We aim to accelerate the implementation of new genomic technologies in healthcare, particularly for the benefit of children and families affected by rare disease.
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) Dr Craig McKenzie has been awarded the 2026 Thermo Fisher Scientific Allergy Research Award for his work on helping to prevent, promote and predict the development of peanut allergy. MCRI Population Allergy Group Senior Research Officer Dr McKenzie
A new human challenge trial under way in Melbourne aims to advance research into Strep A, accelerating efforts towards the development of a vaccine. The trial, a collaboration between Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) and Doherty Clinical Trials Limited, will infect healthy adult
Pregnant women’s attitudes towards receiving the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine to protect their newborn babies will be explored under a new study. The RSVChoice Study by Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) has been awarded an up to $685,000 State Government grant,
An international network led by The University of Queensland and including Murdoch Children’s Research Institute researchers, in partnership with Moderna, has secured funding to accelerate development of an mRNA vaccine for Strep A. The collaborative project received more than $8 million in
Research into protecting premmie babies' lungs, brain development and diabetes are among several Murdoch Children's Research Institute projects to receive funding in the latest federal grants round. Researchers at MCRI have received five Ideas Grants and two Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies
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