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Centre researchers awarded external travel grants to attend international conferences

Research Assistant - Peter Delaney

PhD student Rigel Paciente

To celebrate International Clinical Trials Day, we are highlighting a couple of a current trials underway at the Children's Diabetes Centre at the Kids Research Institute Australia and Perth Children's Hospital

The Rio Tinto Children's Diabetes Centre; a Breakthrough T1D Centre of Excellence is excited to offer Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) researchers and Higher Degree by Research (HDR) students affiliated with the Global CoE, the opportunity to apply for sponsorship for training or capacity building related activities.

We are excited to launch this first-of-its-kind Australian study, monitoring glucose levels in Australian children and adolescents who have tested positive to having one or more type 1 diabetes related antibodies but do not yet need treatment with insulin.

Consumer Representative Sharon Harvey

Dr Jeffrey Cannon is a Health Economist at The Kids Research Institute Australia. Jeff completed his PhD in health economics at the University of Western Australia. His work in health and medical research spans across maternal and newborn health, infectious diseases and more recently, childhood onset diabetes.

Applications are open for our 2025 Honours and Masters Scholarships with the purpose of providing funding for students to develop and support their type 1 diabetes (T1D) related research.

Good planning and communication between families and schools is very important to ensure children are safe and supported. With the new school year underway, hear from our Social Work team with their top tips on managing the start of a new school year.