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School holiday workshops at Scitech

Everything you need to know to book tickets to our upcoming school holiday workshops in April held at Scitech!

Science at Home: Make your own microbiome!

Make your very own unique microbiome using a range of textured items designed to be squeezed and squished.

Community involvement

One way the Wal-yan Respiratory Research Centre provides the opportunity for consumers and community members to contribute to our research is through participation in one of our eight community reference groups.

Healthy Lungs & Immune Development

Focusing on the developmental trajectories of respiratory health includes developing strategies to improve and support immune system function and development over the life course.

Chronic Lung Disease of Prematurity

Each year, 11% (15 million) of the world’s babies are delivered before 37 weeks’ gestation.

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Winners Announced: 2021 Inspiration Awards

MEDIA ENQUIRIES Media Contacts About the Wal-yan Respiratory Research Centre Please direct general enquiries to our reception on (08) 6319 1000.

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20-year MAVRIC study celebrates recruitment of its 1000th participant

The MAVRIC (Mechanisms of Acute Viral Respiratory Infection in Children) study recently celebrated the recruitment of the 1000th participant to the study, eight-year-old Sullivan Strahan.

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Vertex grants to support advances in cystic fibrosis care

Two outstanding researchers from the Wal-yan Respiratory Research Centre have been awarded Vertex Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Mentored Innovation Research Awards.

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New trial aims to nip chronic lung disease in the bud for First Nations kids

WA researchers will use a $1.97 million Medical Research Future Fund grant to develop a strategy for better follow-up of First Nations children after they’ve been hospitalised for respiratory infections, in a bid to halt the slide into more severe lung disease.

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New treatment option for West Australians with cystic fibrosis one step closer thanks to generosity of Conquer Cystic Fibrosis

Access to phage therapy, a treatment option for antibiotic resistant superbugs, is now one step closer for people with CF in WA thanks to a $500,000 donation from Conquer Cystic Fibrosis to the Wal-yan Respiratory Research Centre.