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MEDIA RELEASE | Continued funding for Centre of Research Excellence focused on optimising childhood lung health

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September 04, 2026 - 10:00am

Funding announced by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) will support the continuation of a long-running, childhood lung health Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) led by Menzies School of Health Research (Menzies).
MEDIA RELEASE | Five Menzies researchers awarded NHMRC Investigator Grants

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December 15, 2023 - 13:00pm

Five researchers from Menzies have been awarded NHMRC Investigator Grants in today’s funding round announcement, totaling more than $9 million.
Researchers at CDU some of the most influential in their fields

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December 03, 2021 - 10:00am

According to a Stanford University study, there were 22 academics from CDU and Menzies School of Health research who ranked in the top two per cent of researchers referenced in their respected disciplines for 2020.
Preventing infant wheeze and childhood asthma

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May 21, 2021 - 09:22am

A new $1.6 million Australian-UK world-first project aimed at preventing wheeze in preschool children and potentially asthma in later childhood by using an orally administered bacteria lysate to boost immune systems has been announced.
2021 Howard Williams Medal winner announced

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May 06, 2021 - 08:58am

Congratulations to Professor Anne Chang FRACP who has been announced as the 2021 Howard Williams Medal winner.
CDU academics named among world’s most influential

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November 26, 2020 - 10:41am

Menzies School of Health Research Professor Bart Currie, Professor Anne Chang AM, Professor Ric Price, Associate Professor Steven Tong, Professor Nicholas Anstey, Professor Joshua Davis, Professor Alan Cass, Professor Peter Morris and Professor Amanda Leach
Media alert | Outcomes of protracted bacterial bronchitis in children: A 5‐year prospective cohort study

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October 13, 2020 - 11:10am

Findings from the first prospective longer-term outcome NHMRC-funded study for children with protracted bacterial bronchitis (PBB) in children have identified a link between children with PBB and asthma, highlighting the importance of identifying potentially treatable symptoms in children with chronic respiratory diseases.
Acute lower respiratory infections in Indigenous infants in the NT

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May 28, 2020 - 15:23pm

Menzies senior research fellow Dr Michael Binks examined acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI) hospital admissions among Indigenous infants in the Northern Territory from 2006 to 2015, across three periods of different pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) use.
$440 million funding boost for vital health and medical research for all stages of life

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August 29, 2019 - 09:00am

$6 million in research funding for three Indigenous health grants in the Northern Territory. This includes $2.5 million for an NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence at the Menzies School of Health Research to prevent and manage bronchiectasis, a lung disease which results in recurrent chest infections and is particularly common in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
The Lancet | Anne Chang: a champion of childhood lung health

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September 08, 2018 - 10:29am

At a health centre in Melbourne for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the late 1980s, medical student Anne Chang had her eyes opened to Indigenous disadvantage in Australia
Menzies clinician-researchers receive NHMRC funding

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August 13, 2018 - 13:55pm

Two Menzies School of Health Research clinician-researchers have secured competitive NHMRC funding to continue their valuable work over the coming years.
$12 Million NT Investment aims to save lives

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November 10, 2017 - 08:00am

Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion and Indigenous Health Minister Ken Wyatt AM today announced the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funding for researchers at Darwin’s Menzies School of Medical Research, covering Indigenous-specific and broader health projects.
Evidence informs chronic cough guidelines

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August 01, 2017 - 14:27pm

High-quality evidence informs chronic cough guidelines Results from the first multicentre randomised controlled trial on chronic cough in children led by our child health respiratory team were incorporated into the updated American College of Chest...
Red hot Alice puts mums and bubs at risk

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April 24, 2017 - 09:00am

Three Menzies staff - Professor Anne Chang, Dr Gurmeet Singh and Dr Elizabeth McDonald - were involved in this study. The paper, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, linked preterm births with extreme heat.
Menzies leaders inducted into important new health and medical academy

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March 27, 2015 - 10:00am

Three Menzies researchers inducted as Fellows of the newly formed Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
NHMRC fellowship snapshot: Professor Anne Chang

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October 29, 2013 - 09:34am

Menzies' head of child health Professor Anne Chang was recently awarded a senior practitioner fellowship as part of the National Health and Medical Research Council's yearly multi-million dollar funding round.
Cough, step and jump: a profile of Professor Anne Chang

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August 06, 2012 - 00:00am

One doctor’s mission to beat childhood lung disease.
Menzies' lung and cancer programs win $5 million in 'research excellence' funding

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August 02, 2012 - 12:00pm

Two esteemed lung health and cancer research programs from the Menzies School of Health Research were today declared ‘Centres for Research Excellence’ and awarded funding of $2.5 million each over five years.

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