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"Adult health can be influenced by events in early childhood. Healthy children living in a safe and nurturing environment will grow into healthy adults."
Professor Keith Grimwood, Director of the Queensland Children’s Medical Research Institute

2009 was a defining year for pediatric research in Queensland with the creation and incorporation of a new Institute solely dedicated to solving the major health issues affecting children from Queensland.

The Queensland Children’s Medical Research Institute - the state’s first specialist child health research hub – is already creating a welcoming rallying point and home for the family of researchers that have been quietly toiling away in far flung corners of the Royal Children’s Hospital.

In May, about 40 researchers from key areas including respiratory medicine, cerebral palsy, oncology, infectious diseases, endocrinology, telemedicine, biostatistics and burns and trauma, took up their posts in the newly refurbished Institute, based in the Royal Children’s Hospital.

The Institute will build on the impressive research portfolio and culture of inquiry which the Foundation has fostered over the past 15 years and take it to a new level. The Institute will administer the funds you generously donate to the Foundation, to support research that will ultimately make life a little brighter for some of Queensland’s sickest kids.

With your help, we’ve taken the first step towards creating a centre of paediatric research excellence in Queensland. With your continued support, in 2009-10 we hope to:

• Identify, develop and fund the major research strengths of the Institute
• Continue the annual round of project grants
• Establish close working relationships with nearby universities and research institutes
• Work to attract major research grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
• Focus on PhD scholarships, improve their stipend and the monitoring and supervision of their higher degree projects
• Support the work of Professor Peter Sly – a pre-eminent paediatric research physician from Perth who was recently awarded a prestigious five-year Queensland Senior Clinical Research Fellowship based at the Hospital and Institute. His research will focus on understanding the underlying causes of chronic childhood lung diseases.

Visit the QCMRI website at www.qcmri.org.au.