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Earlier this year, several researchers from Kids Research, and our partners at the University of Sydney and UNSW, were awarded National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funding for their projects, which are focusing on a range of childhood diseases.

Professor Russell Dale, Clinical Director of Kids Neuroscience Centre, was recently interviewed by Triple J's Hack about why doctors have reported a rise in young women developing unexplainable and debilitating tics during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sam Bryen works within the Genomic Medicine research group at Kids Neuroscience Centre. Sam recently submitted her PhD which was generously supported by the award of the Sue Connor Scholarship from Muscular Dystrophy NSW.

Australian scientists researching how our immune system responds to COVID-19 have revealed that those infected by early variants in 2020 produced sustained antibodies, however, these antibodies are not as effective against contemporary variants of the virus.

Congratulations to Dr Tegan Cheng and Dr Orazio Vittorio for being awarded the 2021 Young Tall Poppy Science Award!