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Prospective Student Evening

Students met ORIGINS team at the recent Prospective Student Evening at Telethon Kids Institute.

Preparing for your appointment

Find information on each session, and your pre-appointment checklist to ensure you are prepared.

FAQs

Find answers to frequently asked questions about ORIGINS.

News & Events

Tackling allergy prevention in early life

The Childhood Allergy and Immunology Research Team at The Kids Research Institute Australia are currently conducting four studies, through ORIGINS, investigating nutritional strategies in the diets of mothers and babies and how these may reduce the development of allergies.

Nutrition & Metabolism

ORIGINS has sub-projects exploring the link between a mother's diet during pregnancy and health outcomes of the child. Projects also explore nutrition and eating habits during the early years.

Research

Finding new, safer and targeted therapies for paediatric brain cancer that amplify responses to radiation therapy

Radiation therapy is an essential component of brain cancer treatment. However, the high doses currently required are extremely damaging to the growing brains and bodies of children.

Research

Modelling the COVID pandemic with the Geographical COVID-19 Model (GEO-COV)

Researchers have developed a new model for simulating covid-19 outbreaks in Western Australia. 

Research

The genomic evolutionary dynamics and global circulation patterns of respiratory syncytial virus

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a leading cause of acute lower respiratory tract infection in young children and the second leading cause of infant death worldwide. While global circulation has been extensively studied for respiratory viruses such as seasonal influenza, and more recently also in great detail for SARS-CoV-2, a lack of global multi-annual sampling of complete RSV genomes limits our understanding of RSV molecular epidemiology.