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Environmental Exposures

The lungs represent a key interface between the body and the environment.

How to support your kids through the next phase of COVID-19

In Western Australia we have so far been remarkably successful in flattening the curve and preventing the community spread of COVID-19.

Researchers unlock BCG vaccine puzzle in findings that could save millions of newborns

The Kids Research Institute Australia researchers working with a global team have identified the mechanism behind one of science’s most enduring myst…

Targeting cytokine- and therapy-induced PIM1 activation in preclinical models of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and lymphoma

IL7 and glucocorticoids coordinately drive aberrant activation of PIM1 and suggests that T-ALL and T-LBL patients could benefit from PIM inhibition

Bep Uink

Bep Uink is an Honorary Research Associate at The Kids Research Institute Australia.

Healthy Lungs & Immune Development

Focusing on the developmental trajectories of respiratory health includes developing strategies to improve and support immune system function and dev…

BHP commits $2.6 million to research focused on stopping COVID-19 spread

Researchers from The Kids Research Institute Australia will lead a world first trial to test the effectiveness of the drug interferon in stopping out…

The detection of bile acids in the lungs of paediatric cystic fibrosis patients is associated with altered inflammatory patterns

Our work has identified a clinically relevant host-derived factor that may participate in shaping early events in the aetiology of CF respiratory dis…

BCG vaccination-induced emergency granulopoiesis provides rapid protection from neonatal sepsis

We found that BCG, in a mouse model of neonatal polymicrobial sepsis, induced granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) within hours of administr…

Chronic Lung Disease of Prematurity

Each year, 11% (15 million) of the world’s babies are delivered before 37 weeks’ gestation.