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As Professor Joshua Burns PhD bids farewell to his time at the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network, he leaves behind a 20 year long legacy of incredible work and transformative leadership.

As a part of the Navigator Project, a targeted nurse-led support service has helped Finn's family in navigating a rare disease diagnosis and treatment.

A new viral vector manufacturing facility being built in the Westmead precinct is set to change the treatment landscape for patients with genetic diseases, cancers and viral infections, enabling gene therapies to be trialled and delivered sooner.

The latest round of MRFF grants will further drive innovation and research across Kids Research into areas such as childhood asthma, cancer, Cerebral Palsy and trauma care.

The groundbreaking FIREFLY-1 trial tested the efficacy of oral drug, tovorafenib, in brain tumour patients with results showing a 50 per cent tumour shrinkage in two thirds of patients.