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Updates in infant acute lymphoblastic leukemia and the potential for targeted therapy

Outcomes for infants diagnosed under 1 year of age with KMT2A-rearranged acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) have remained stagnant over the past 20 years. Successive treatment protocols have previously focused on intensification of conventional chemotherapy, but increased treatment-related toxicity and chemoresistance have led to a plateau in survival.

Enhancing functional recovery for young people recovering from first episode psychosis via sport-based life skills training: outcomes of a feasibility and pilot study

Early intervention within First Episode Psychosis (FEP) recovery efforts support functional recovery in several ways, including increasing levels of (1) physical activity (2) life skills, and (3) social connectivity. Sport has been proposed as an ideal platform to target these three goals simultaneously.

Publications

The list of The Siblings Project publications

Dr Keely Bebbington awarded Stan Perron Charitable Foundation Fellowship

This fellowship is for her research that aims to improve mental health and wellbeing outcomes for young people and their families living with type 1 diabetes (T1D).

Community Involvement in the Centre

Community Involvement and Consumer Representatives are a really important part of our research. Find out what they have been working on.

Researcher Spotlight - David Bloom

David Bloom is a Professor of Economics and Demography at Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Global Health and Population and a Principal Investigator for our JDRF Global Centre of Excellence

Congratulations 2024 Seed Funding Recipients!

The Rio Tinto Children’s Diabetes Centre; a JDRF Global Centre of Excellence announces $60,000 in new round of seed grants for researchers dedicated to type 1 diabetes. Three researchers from across Australia have received up to $20,000 to advance their research projects in type 1 diabetes (T1D). 

Exercise and hypo awareness study

Our researchers want to assess whether a home-based program of either low-intensity or intermittent high-intensity exercise can improve the ability to feel hypo symptoms in individuals (14-35 years) with impaired hypoglycaemia awareness.

Physical activity vital to diabetes management

Parents of children with Type 1 Diabetes often feel they need to wrap their child in cotton wool rather than let them get on with the job of being a kid and eve

Jake jumps at trial opportunity

Meet Jake O’Brien, the first patient to take part in the longest and largest at-home trial of a hybrid closed-loop insulin pump.