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Thanks to 30 years of support from the WA community, The Kids Research Institute Australia is home to some of the world’s best researchers.

With the number of COVID-19 infections in Western Australia continuing to grow – including confirmed cases in children – The Kids Research Institute Australia understands that our community is growing increasingly worried.

It's normal for children and teenagers to experience a range of emotions, including sadness, however childhood depression is more than just feeling sad.

Research save lives and contains the spread of COVID-19.

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Melanoma, also known as malignant melanoma, occurs when abnormal skin cells multiply rapidly in an uncontrolled way.

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Brain tumours are the second most common cancer in children (after leukaemia).

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A lifelong auto-immune condition that can affect anyone, but is most commonly diagnosed in childhood.

Cystic fibrosis (CF) researchers are working hard to progress phage therapy as an alternative treatment to antibiotics in people with CF who develop life-threatening lung infections.

Running any research project is a feat of logistical gymnastics – and often, you don’t know what can go wrong until it happens.

In 2006, when a Japanese scientist building on the earlier work of a British biologist discovered a way to reprogram adult cells into other cell types – making them ‘pluripotent’ – the scientific world was entranced.