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Named after the late Joan Kirner, Victoria's first and only female Premier, the program will enable up-and-coming female leaders to obtain the critical skills, networks and experiences required to advance their leadership careers.Twenty-one successful applicants were selected from over 280
The award recognises someone who has made a substantial and meaningful contribution by supporting, empowering and campaigning for people affected by diabetes in Victoria. Fergus is a well-respected expert in Type 1 diabetes, both nationally and internationally, particularly for his work in areas
Dr Valerie Sung is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Community Health Services Research Tell us about your research I am involved with many different research studies at MCRI. My two main projects are focused on children with hearing loss and infant colic – excessive crying. My first project,
Mitochondrial disease starves the body's cells of energy, resulting in multiple organ dysfunction and failure. There is no cure and few effective treatments for mitochondrial disease, which can cause any symptom in any organ at any age and is now second only to cystic fibrosis as the most commonly
The research by the Murdoch Children's Research Institute published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine studied the subjective sleep quality of a small group of adolescents suffering CFS by using self-report measures. Objective measures were also used to assess sleep quality in these
Australia's top paediatricians reviewed the evidence, published in the Medical Journal of Australia, titled The kids are OK: it is discrimination not same-sex parents that harms children, and found that children raised in same-sex parented families do as well as children raised by heterosexual
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
Australian Genomics is one of three national genomic medicine initiatives, alongside Genomics England and the U.S. All of Us program, to be selected by GA4GH as Driver Projects. These will pilot GA4GH data sharing frameworks and standards in real-world healthcare settings, and share their
A/Prof Jeff Craig is a Senior Research Fellow in Environmental & Genetic Epidemiology ResearchTell us about your research I study the role of epigenetics in the early life origins of chronic disease. Epigenetics refer to the molecular switches that control the activity of our genes without
Written by Sacha Petersen, Developmental Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Clinical Sciences, Murdoch Children's Research Institute.Sleep problems are common for children with cerebral palsy (CP). Typically, a child who does not sleep well, in turn, has a parent who does not sleep
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