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For babies born extremely premature, like twins Mikey and Gabe, the fight for life starts from the first breath. They have great odds of survival, but if surgery is required and an inadequate anaesthesia dose is administered, their quality of life can be severely impacted. At 25 weeks old, a
A global stem cell research collaboration that will develop new treatments for cancer, diabetes and heart disease has been launched at the Murdoch Children’s Research Centre (MCRI).
Program area: Resilience & Mental Health. Despite the growing interest in resilience, there are few resilience measures for children. We have developed the first multi-domain, socially inclusive measure of childhood resilience, co-designed with Aboriginal and refugee background communities.
We host Masters research projects in laboratory, clinical and public health research groups. Across the Melbourne Children's Campus, the Institute in partnership with the University of Melbourne and the Royal Children's Hospital a number of programs.
Program area: Aboriginal Health. The Aboriginal Families Study is a prospective mother and child cohort study investigating the health and wellbeing of 344 Aboriginal children and their mothers living in urban, regional and remote areas of South Australia. The study was developed in response to
The children in the AQUA study turned six during 2018 and 2019, and we followed their development as they began their journey through school. This stage of the study is called the AQUA Early School Years Follow-up, or AQUA at 6 for short.
Almost 1,600 Victorian women took part in AQUA from early in their pregnancy, many of whom drank varying levels of alcohol before they realised they were pregnant. Participants provided detailed information at three stages of pregnancy on demographics, obstetric history and pregnancy complication,
The SENTINEL Study aims to describe the epidemiology of hospitalised children treated for sepsis in Australia and New Zealand.
PRoMPT BOLUS is a large clinical trial that will enrol over 8,000 children with sepsis across the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
This study is complete. PEERS is a novel psychological assessment tool that can evaluate social skills in children and young people. Currently, there are no comprehensive, well-validated tools available to detect social impairment, which limits our ability to identify those in need of intervention.
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