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Dr Asha Bowen, Head of Skin Health at the Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases, has been awarded a 2018 Fellowship as part of the prestigious L’Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science program.
As many as a quarter of Australian babies aren’t getting vaccinated on time, leaving them at risk of developing life-threatening illnesses such as whooping cough when they are most vulnerable.
Five outstanding The Kids Research Institute Australia researchers are amongst the eight recipients of the WA Department of Health New Independent Researcher Infrastructure Support (NIRIS) awards.
Babies are most vulnerable to life-threatening diseases in their first few weeks of life, yet current vaccines can’t be given until two months of age.
Newborn babies and their fragile immune systems struggle to fight off nasty infections such as septicaemia, pneumonia and gastroenteritis.
Six weeks, nine community visits and 380 kids – it’s a wrap for round one of the StoP Trial!
Aboriginal families across Western Australia are being equipped with the knowledge to take early action against potentially life-threatening skin infections thanks to the launch of a Strong Skin phone app.
Researchers from The Kids Research Institute Australia have been awarded a $1.1 million NHMRC ‘Targeted Call for Hearing Health’ grant to conduct the first ever study following Aboriginal babies from birth through to five years to uncover the true prevalence of middle ear infections and hearing loss.
Australian researchers have uncovered a new form of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) – undetectable using traditional laboratory testing methods – in a discovery set to challenge existing efforts to monitor and tackle one of the world’s greatest health threats.
A global consortium of Group A Streptococcus (Strep A) researchers has launched a series of best practice surveillance protocols designed to unite international research efforts for a world-first Strep A vaccine.