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Parents’ top tips for managing their kids’ device use

Have you ever wondered how other parents manage their kids’ device use? As part of a survey for our Cyber Savvy Project, The Kids researchers asked a group of parents for their top tips regarding their child's use of devices.

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Setting smart phone rules

Mobile phones are an important part of diabetes management but its also important to set some family rules for your child's technology use.

Donors and Fundraisers

We rely on the support of donors & fundraisers to be able to conduct the life changing pediatric research we do on a day-to-day basis. Will you help?

Illuminate Events

Illuminate is an initiative that supports our best and brightest researchers at the most pivotal time in their careers.

Research

Fc-Engineered B7-H3 Antibody with Prolonged Serum Half-Life for Enhanced Cancer Therapy

Monoclonal antibodies are revolutionizing the landscape of current cancer treatment, bringing hope to patients with incurable cancers. B7-H3 (CD276) is an attractive therapeutic target for antibody-based therapy due to its low or absent expression in normal tissues and high expression in various types of tumors, including prostate cancer, pancreatic cancer, and high-mortality esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). In recent years, various B7-H3-targeting antibodies have been developed for cancer treatment, with a few making their way to clinical trials.

Research

Multigenerational Familial and Environmental Risk for Autism (MINERvA) Network

The MINERvA Network will allow more accurate and precise determination of the contributions of familial and environmental factors to the etiology of autism.

RHD Endgame tantalisingly close

Professor Jonathan Carapetis has made eliminating rheumatic heart disease his life’s work.

Facing the future: Giving kids in Tuvalu a better start as their country sinks into the sea

Children in the tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu face a unique threat that should be a wake-up call to other countries across the world.

Biospecimen Service

BioSpecs is a flexible service that supports laboratory research by providing expert technical assistance in pre-analytical sample processing and nucleic acid extractions.

Closing the Gap - Hitting ‘reset’ on how we measure early development in Aboriginal kids

In 2020, the National Closing the Gap partnership made improving early development of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children one of its top priorities. Australia will measure progress in this area using the AEDC.