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 Children’s Hospital at Westmead has launched a world-first clinical trial investigating the use of phage therapy to treat a chronic bacterial infection in children with cystic fibrosis (CF).

Three boys in NSW have become the youngest in the world to receive therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy in a world-first trial.

Patients with difficult-to-treat bacterial infections across NSW will soon have better access to limb and life-saving therapy known as phage therapy, thanks to a $3.5 million funding boost announced by the NSW Government.

In a new clinical trial being led by The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, doctors are testing whether drug used to help adult Alzheimer’s patients can help improve some of the devastating features of Rett syndrome.