CRE funded project

The CRE is funding the development of multi-lingual apps using previously developed educational flipcharts to provide easily accessible health education on respiratory conditions to health professionals and families. We have...

This study will gather focus group data from adolescents and their parents to inform the future development of a validated HR-QoL tool advised by Indigenous participants. Health-related Quality of Life...

This project is an extension of the Bronchiectasis Intervention Study (BIS). The project extends the original study by adding microbiota analysis. This is a longitudinal study of microbiota present in...

The funds provided through the CRE will allow the LOTUS-Long term follow up improves clinical care and respiratory outcomes for Indigenous children study to complete the third and final year,...

This project builds on our recent findings about certain type of immune cells known as macrophages. Our research found that macrophages in the lungs of children with protracted bacterial bronchitis...

This is the Alaskan arm of study- 2 of the LOTUS (Long Term follow up improves clinical care and respiratory outcomes for indigenous children) Study . This project is an...

Chronic cough in children causes considerable health problems and health care costs. Protracted bacterial bronchitis (PBB), is a common cause of chronic cough in children and was first described by...

The Tooth & Lung Sickness in Murri Medical Kids (TLSiMM Kids) Study is an ongoing, prospective cohort study of urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander aged less than 5 years...

Our initial study, funded by the Channel 7 Children’s Research Foundation, investigated the microbiota associated with the upper and lower respiratory tract in 35 children with chronic suppurative lung disease,...

The LOTUS study is an extension of previous bronchiolitis and chronic suppurative lung disease (CSLD) (includes non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis) studies. This research project is being conducted over three year and...