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Growing mini-kidneys from stem cells
About 1.7 million Australians have kidney disease. The potential toxicity of ...
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Helping children with dwarfism reach new heights
Achondroplasia is the most common type of dwarfism and affects about one in 25,0 ...
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Curing Australia's most deadly food allergies
Peanut allergy is the most common cause of the life-threatening allergic reactio ...
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Redefining how child concussion is treated in the ED
While many sports modify rules to reduce contact among younger players, one in f ...
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Rotavirus vaccine saving millions of lives
In 1973 Melbourne Professor Ruth Bishop identified rotavirus as the cause of sev ...
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Changing the lives of children in Australia

GenV is transforming the health and wellbeing of an entire generation
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Reducing the impact of COVID-19 on children now and into the future
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Supporting Australian families living with allergy and allergic diseases
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We believe every child deserves a healthy start to life
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Advancing treatment for incurable childhood diseases
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Leading the global fight to wipe out scabies
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Joining the global race to better understand COVID-19 variants
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Finding cost effective and simple ways to address oxygen access for sick children
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Child health

A-Z of child and adolescent health
Explore the A-Z of child health and learn more about our many research areas.
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Meet the children making it possible
Meet the children and families whose lives have been changed by the incredible work of our committed researchers.
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Aboriginal Health
Working with Aboriginal communities to promote health, wellbeing and equity for all.
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Covid-19
Creating the robust evidence we need to understand, treat and prevent COVID-19, and the impacts for kids.
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Neurodevelopment
Transform our treatment of autism, social impairment and intellectual disability
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