Young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people receiving long-term, painful injections to prevent deadly complications from rheumatic heart disease (RHD) will design their own optimum treatment program thanks to latest research at Telethon Kids Institute. ...

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• 2023
• March

World-first immunisations providing protection against deadly respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) could be just months away thanks to global research efforts spanning multiple decades. ...

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• 2022
• August

Seven important Telethon Kids Institute research projects have received support from the Future Health Research and Innovation Fund through the WA Near-Miss Awards (WANMA). ...

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• 2022
• June

Congratulations to Associate Professor Asha Bowen, who has been awarded the 2022 Frank Fenner Award for Advanced Research in Infectious Diseases. ...

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• 2022
• June

New collaborative research involving almost 600,000 pregnant mothers has demonstrated a dramatic increase in uptake of the whooping cough (pertussis) vaccine after identifying just 22 per cent of WA women had the maternal vaccination between 2012 – 2017. ...

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• 2022
• June