Three Telethon Kids researchers have been named amongst WA’s most outstanding young scientists for their efforts to ensure kids around the country have the chance to lead happy and healthy lives. ...

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Vanessa Timo Fear Lassmann VF T BSc (Hons), PhD BSc (Hons) MSc PhD Head, Translational Genetics Team Feilman Fellow; Program Head, Precision Health ...

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Rachel Graham Alexandra Foong Hall Whelan RF GL AW BSc (hons), PhD, MBiostat BAppSci PhD CRFS FANZSRS FThorSoc FERS BSc, MPH Senior Research Fellow ...

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Shakara Yael Bep Liddelow-Hunt Perry Uink SLH YP BU BPhil(Hons) BPsych (Hons) MPsych (Clin) PhD BPsych(Hons.), MAppPsy(Clinical), PhD Research ...

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Timo Lassmann T BSc (Hons) MSc PhD Feilman Fellow; Program Head, Precision Health and Team Lead, Computational Biology timo.lassmann@ ...

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Child obesity is a serious public health challenge affected by both individual choice and societal and environmental factors. The main modifiable risk factors for child obesity are unhealthy eating and low levels of physical activity, both influenced by aspects of the built environment.  ...

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• 2023
• October 2023

Our results identify a pretreatment tumor microenvironment that predicts response to immune checkpoint blockade, which can be therapeutically attained ...

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• 2019
• July 2019

We believe this data represents a useful resource to understand the central nervous system in macaque. ...

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• 2017
• March 2017

The aims of the present study were to (i) examine the relationship between children's degree of adiposity and psychosocial functioning; and (ii) compare patterns of clustering of psychosocial measures between healthy weight and overweight/obese children. ...

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• 2008
• February 2008

After 20 years at the Institute, Hannah’s career has been a whirlwind of discovery and dedication. ...

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