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The Foundations of Lung Disease Team is focused on improving the diagnosis, treatment, and lifelong care of childhood lung disease.
A new research project – the WA Paediatric Bronchiectasis Cohort Study – officially commenced this month with the aim of looking at children with bronchiectasis in Western Australia, like nine-year-old Holly (pictured), to better understand how this disease develops during childhood.
A new study to determine if it’s safe for children who were born preterm to attend day care officially commenced this month.
A study which set out to determine ways to predict the long-term lung health of young adults born very preterm has shown that a childhood history of respiratory hospital admission should be a key consideration in the management of preterm children and adults.
Research Assistant
We assessed the impact of maternally derived pertussis antibodies on infant responses to a 2 + 1 vaccine schedule (6 weeks, 12 weeks, and 12 months). Infants with baseline antibodies showed lower IgG responses following the primary vaccination series, but this did not impair booster responses at 4 years of age.
Eleven researchers from The Kids Research Institute Australia will benefit from the latest round of Stan Perron Charitable Foundation Research Fellowship and Platform grants, with two researchers receiving prestigious Perron Platform grants and a further ten awarded Research Fellowships.
Dr Tom Snelling from The Kids explains the top five things you should know about the virus and why having the measles vaccine is so important.
Children at risk of potentially life-threatening Strep A infections no longer have to wait five days for timely treatment, thanks to a The Kids Research Institute Australia study conducted in the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia.
Senior Program Manager, Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines & Infectious Diseases