Our computational biology program is using massive super computers to help make sense of big data to improve the lives of children with cancer.
Making sense of big data to cure childhood cancers
Searching for a biomarker for Rett syndrome, a severe genetic disease that causes babies to lose movement and communication.
Fishing for biomarkers for Rett syndrome
Babies diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) at birth who received life-changing gene therapy are now celebrating their first birthday symptom-free or with minimal symptoms thanks to a world-first clinical trial.
World-first treatment changes outlook for SMA babies
New opportunities for gene therapy and diagnosis for the blinding eye disease, retinal dystrophy, may now become available following work done by the Eye Genetics Research Unit at the Children’s Medical Research Institute.
Breakthrough for genetic eye disease