Congratulations to the team. Fantastic work! Timely discovery to help untangle treatable traits in pediatric respiratory diseases.

Congratulations Melanie Neeland and Shivanthan Shanthikumar 🫁🫁 and the rest of the team. This research is valuable and moves our understanding and our field on quite a bit.

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Melanie Neeland Melanie Neeland and colleagues apply #pulmonary immune profiling to understand childhood #wheeze and suppurative lung disease. mucosalimmunology.org/article/S1933-…

Researchers, led by #MCRI, have made a breakthrough into how two chronic #respiratory diseases in childhood affect the #immune system, paving the way for better treatments | #ChildHealth #MedicalResearch 👉 mcri.edu.au/news-stories/d…

Yesterday marked a significant milestone as we hosted the inaugural #CUREAsthma Research Symposium, marking a crucial step towards finding a cure for asthma. Thanks to scientific advancements, this goal is now within reach. More: buff.ly/4cT5174

Congratulations A/Prof Rachel Peters, recipient of the NAC @TSANZ 2024 career development fellowship. Prof Peters, Principal Investigator of @mcri_for_kids HealthNuts and EarlyNuts, will be developing a prediction model to assist clinicians to provide early asthma diagnoses.

Congrats to MCRI's A/Prof Rachel Peters who has received a Stallergenes Greer Foundation Science Award for Allergy for her research into the link between #foodallergy and #respiratory health. #ChildHealth #MedicalResearch #Allergy 👉 mcri.edu.au/news/awards/ra…

MCRI researchers Melanie Neeland Sarath Ranganathan & Shivanthan Shanthikumar 🫁🫁 have penned a piece for MJA that explores a new approach to managing #lung conditions in children. | #ChildHealth #MedicalResearch CCCH The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne ⬇️ bit.ly/3wW5lBU

We finally wrote up our cell type-specific QC (ctQC) protocol for scRNA (and spatial)-seq data: tinyurl.com/4j6scp2r . Comments welcome! In a nutshell: we show that sc QC cutoffs should be strict, cell type-specific and data-driven. 1/

New ATS Clinical Practice Guideline “Detection of Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome Following Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation” See Transplantation and Cellular Therapy for a companion narrative review tinyurl.com/bdds46k7

Thrilled to see this American Thoracic Society (ATS) endorsed guideline focusing on detection of post-HSCT BOS published. An area of significant morbidity and mortality. ATSPeds Paul D Robinson 🫁 Ajay Sheshadri Lung GVHD Consortium

World-first guidelines, led by #MCRI, have been developed to help better treat #children with a common and often fatal #lung complication that can result from a transplant. Read the full paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38897861/ newsGP MJA Shivanthan Shanthikumar 🫁🫁

We are seeking an enthusiastic, motivated and curious PhD student to join us at Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) to study how viral infections lead to pulmonary fibrosis using stem cell models 🫁. More details here: findaphd.com/phds/project/e…

Research led by #MCRI's Dr Prue Pereira-Fantini has featured on the Geelong Advertiser's front page, detailing how early signs of bronchopulmonary dysplasia can be seen in the blood of #preterm babies just hours after birth. | #MedicalResearch #LungDisease #BPD Dr Prue Pereira-Fantini 🫁🧬 Full story 👇