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Professor Desiree Silva with the 1000th family - Jess, Michael and Eli The multimillion-dollar ORIGINS Project, an extensive community-based research
ORIGINS has several sub-projects exploring allergy development within the cohort, with a focus on respiratory conditions such as asthma and nutritional strategies for allergy prevention.
ORIGINS sub-projects investigating the impact of the physical environment and lifestyle on health, development and chronic conditions.
Research data from more than one million Australian and Welsh children will be examined to help better understand how the built environment affects child health and obesity, as part of an international research project to be co-led by The Kids Research Institute Australia.
First-of-its-kind findings show that newborns exclusively fed colostrum in their first 72 hours of life were five times less likely to develop a peanut allergy by 12-18 months, and 11 times less likely to develop multiple food allergies (such as egg or cow’s milk) compared with infants who also received formula
ORIGINS, the largest longitudinal cohort study of its kind in Australia, delivered in partnership between The Kids Research Institute Australia and Joondalup Health Campus, has received $1.5 million funding from the Minderoo Foundation.
Urine is an attractive biospecimen for nutritional status and population health surveys. It is an excellent non-invasive alternative to blood for appropriate biomarkers in young children and is suitable for home-based collection, enabling representative collections across a population. However, the bulk of literature in this population is restricted to collection in primary care settings.
This study is investigating whether a machine learning based approach can be used to improve fetal brain anatomy measurement for learning development studies.
The impact of ground-breaking research is helping ORIGINS families
Six scientists from The Kids Research Institute Australia have been named finalists across five categories in the 2026 Premier's Science Awards.