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2024 Run for a Reason – Team The KidsThe HBF Run for a Reason is back and if you’re looking for a reason to take part in this year’s event, let it be child health research.
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Prestigious national award for researcher seeking to improve Indigenous cancer outcomesCongratulations to Indigenous genomics researcher Dr Justine Clark, who is one of two scientists nationally to receive the Australian Academy of Science’s 2024 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Science Award.
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Decades-old work picked up by Google’s DeepMind leads to global scientific breakthroughA researcher's work from 20 years ago has helped to crack one of biology’s biggest mysteries.
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Flagship award for folate champion Carol BowerOne of The Kids Research Institute Australia’s most influential researchers, who has played a seminal role in birth defect research and advocacy over a four-decade career, has won the Peter Wills Medal – the Australian research community’s flagship award.
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Stem cell ‘memory’ discovery offers hope for new disease breakthroughsAustralian researchers have developed a new method to ‘wipe the memory’ of reprogrammed human cells to better mimic embryonic stem cells, in a discovery that has significant implications for the treatment of several serious diseases.
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EVENT: Join us for the Broome Festival of STEMJoin us in celebrating all things Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics at the Broome Festival of STEM.
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New website provides tools and resources for parents of gender diverse children and young peopleTransforming Families is providing evidence-based resources to help support the mental wellbeing of young people questioning their gender identity, or who identify as trans or gender diverse.
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Australia’s first Indigenous scientist appointed to CSIRO boardThe Kids Research Institute Australia and Australian National University Professor of Indigenous Genomics, Professor Alex Brown, has become the first Indigenous member of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Board.
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The Kids researchers selected for prestigious leadership programTwo incredible team leaders from The Kids Research Institute Australia will join a cohort of 25 women working in STEM across Australia, to take part in the 2023 WILD program.
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Leading disease modeller appointed inaugural Fiona Stanley Chair of Child Health ResearchThe Kids Research Institute Australia and The University of Western Australia are proud to announce the appointment of the inaugural Fiona Stanley Chair of Child Health Research, Professor Melissa Penny.