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Associate Professor Amanda Gwee has been awarded a $3 million Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies Grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). The study will investigate how aminoglycoside-based (AG) antibiotics impacts the hearing of children and examine which strategies
Babies who receive a RV3-BB rotavirus vaccine at birth showed higher levels of good bacteria in their gut, better protecting them against infection during the first weeks of life, according to a new study. And the discovery will help to pave the way for researchers to improve the health outcomes of
The Japan Scholar Program is a collaboration between the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) and the Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education. The program aims to enhance the research profile and global visibility of promising ethics graduate students and early-career researchers in
This study aims to discover if what a mother eats while breastfeeding can impact her baby's allergy development.
Intellectual disability occurs in two to three per cent of newborns, for a variety of reasons, including environmental factors, chromosomal abnormalities, and variations in single genes. Recently, it has been recognised that intellectual disability resulting from inborn errors in the chromatin
The Lineage Study is an ambitious five-year project (2022–2027) dedicated to developing a framework for the ethical governance of genomic datasets in Australia. The project brings together bioethics scholars, legal academics, social scientists, clinical geneticists, genomic researchers,
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,
A new international trial has received $5 million in federal funding from the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) to improve treatment for life-threatening streptococcal infections. Spearheaded by leading researchers and clinicians from the Doherty Institute and Murdoch Children's Research
When the pedestrian light turned green, Indigo didn’t think twice before crossing a well-trodden intersection in Melbourne. Indigo, pictured above with her mum Amber, was on her way home after catching up with friends for dinner last May, when a scooter rider running a red light stopped her in
A pilot concussion clinic for children has opened at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) to kickstart early treatment and help with recovery. The Concussion Essentials Clinic implementation project, an evidence-based paediatric concussion clinic study, will provide treatment and guide
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