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Western Australia Paediatric Bronchiectasis CohortBronchiectasis is a chronic lung disease that impairs quality of life and reduces life expectancy.
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Assistance and Companion Dogs for children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Fragile XAndrew Gail Videos Whitehouse Watch and listen to Andrew Alvares PhD PhD Deputy Director (Research); Angela Wright Bennett Professor of Autism
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BEACHES: Built Environments and Child Health in WalEs and AuStraliaThe BEACHES project aims to provide high quality evidence of aspects of the built environment which can be modified to reduce the negative impact on children’s physical activity, eating behaviours and weight status.
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Communication, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and youth justiceInvestigators: Natalie Kippin This research aims to examine the communication abilities of young people sentenced to detention in Western Australia,
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Computational fluid-particle dynamic and pharmacokinetic assessment of electronic cigarette aerosols for improved understanding of their potential to impact healthThis project will use computational methods to assess the deposition of e-cigarette aerosols in the lungs, and the distribution of chemicals within e-cigarette aerosols throughout the body.
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Defining target penicillin concentrations for subsequent studies of a reformulated long-acting benzathine penicillin prototypeAims: To determine the minimum inhibitory concentrations of penicillin G against a representative collection of Strep A strains; and to evaluate the impact of penicillin G concentration and size of bacterial inoculum on the prophylactic effect for Strep A strains
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Developing and characterising juvenile models of aggressive paediatric brain cancers for the evaluation of novel immunotherapiesNick Raelene Terrance Gottardo Endersby Johns MBChB FRACP PhD BSc (Hons) PhD Head of Paediatric and Adolescent Oncology and Haematology, Perth
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Developing new models of mitochondrial diseases using CRISPR/Cas technologiesAleksandra Filipovska BSc PhD Louis Landau Chair in Child Health Research; NHMRC Leadership Fellow; Deputy Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for
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Do exposures before conception influence the risk of asthma in the offspring?David Martino BSc PhD Head, Chronic Diseases Research David.Martino@thekids.org.au Head, Chronic Diseases Research Assoc. Prof David Martino is the
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Early Irritability as a Transdiagnostic Neurodevelopmental Vulnerability to Later Mental Health ProblemsIrritability is a common trait seen in children. While expressions of irritability are part of normal development, servere irritability is a known indicator of child and adolescent mental health problems.