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Hudson Institute of Medical Research
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Leading Australian medical research institute🧑🏻‍🔬
🔥 Inflammation 🧬 Cancer 👶🏾 Women’s and Newborn Health
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A/Prof Miranda Davies-Tuck & Dr Keeth Mayakaduwage examined whether The Safer Baby Bundle reduced stillbirth & perinatal mortality & whether its benefits were experienced equitably across communities.

Their findings are very encouraging.
🔗 bit.ly/4ko6QgK
Dr Keeth Mayakaduwage & A/Prof Miranda Davies-Tuck
February 5, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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#MedicalResearch saves & changes lives. 🔬

Hudson Institute of Medical Research is proud to stand behind this campaign calling on the Australian government to release the full legislated quota from the Medical Research Future Fund each year.

➡️ bit.ly/49ByUcH

#MedicalResearchMatters
Medical Research Matters
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January 23, 2026 at 1:16 AM
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🔥 #Inflammation is your body’s response to infection or injury, but in overdrive it can result in your immune system mistakenly attacking healthy tissue. It's the cause of 50% of deaths worldwide & underpins hundreds of chronic diseases & conditions. 🌏
January 20, 2026 at 5:19 AM
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Do you have a #MenstrualCycle? 🩸

We're conducting a study to help us understand the physical, social & emotional factors that may influence a person’s decision to participate in studies about #MenstrualFluid.

Find out more about the Cycles for Science Study: https://bit.ly/4aQ7S2c
Would you use your cycle for science?
January 12, 2026 at 6:42 AM
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Another great presentation from @hudsonresearch.bsky.social Centre for Innate Immunity and Infectious Diseases (CiiiD) PhD student, Anita Chaulagain (@aneeta0110) about type I interferon signalling during Shigella flexneri! #YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS
November 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Dr Julia Chitty showing us how pirfenidone can be repurposed to treat viral exacerbations of COPD based on a novel precision-cut lung slice model. Exciting work!
#YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS
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November 14, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Rachelia Raissa Wibawa from @hudsonresearch.bsky.social gave an excellent talk on her research which has identified novel genetic mutations in Legionella pneumophila that impact host transcriptional responses #YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS
November 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Belated post of my macaron centrepiece from last week’s @ciiid-hudson.bsky.social Christmas party – “the cells of CiiiD”. A lot of work to produce this undetermined number of macarons (I lost count) 🙃 Big thanks to @biorender.bsky.social who I used to make the templates! @hudsonresearch.bsky.social
A tower of macarons shaped and decorated like different cell types
December 15, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Grateful to work with some amazing people at the @ciiid-hudson.bsky.social @hudsonresearch.bsky.social
Including these special super smart ladies @jackiheraudfarlow.bsky.social and @sciencesophie.bsky.social
#sciencetribe 🧪👯‍♀️
December 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Science buddies are the best. Definite highlight of moving to @hudsonresearch.bsky.social has been learning from these two.
drnatsampaio.bsky.social Natalia Sampaio @drnatsampaio.bsky.social · Dec 12
Grateful to work with some amazing people at the @ciiid-hudson.bsky.social @hudsonresearch.bsky.social
Including these special super smart ladies @jackiheraudfarlow.bsky.social and @sciencesophie.bsky.social
#sciencetribe 🧪👯‍♀️
December 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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@hudsonresearch.bsky.social gingerbread getting me through my last day of work before the holidays 🎄🧪🎄🧪🎄🧪
December 16, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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New paper from Dr Zahrah Azman et al. shows preterm growth-restricted lambs with asphyxia have impaired vascular contractility and heightened cardiac adrenergic responses, insights that matter for neonatal cardiovascular outcomes. Read & share 👇 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41432623/ #FGR #CardioSci
In vivo and ex vivo cardiovascular haemodynamic responses of preterm growth-restricted lambs to perinatal asphyxia - PubMed
Fetal growth restriction (FGR) arises from chronic hypoxia and increases the risk of cardiovascular dysfunction following perinatal asphyxia, although underlying mechanisms remain unclear. We investigated whether cardiovascular responses to asphyxia are impaired in preterm FGR lambs and whether this …
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
December 24, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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New study from our group:

Umbilical cord milking as a technique to harvest cord blood derived cells for regenerative applications

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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@pediatricresearch.bsky.social
www.nature.com
December 27, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Congrats to this year's National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Idea Grant recipients! 👏🥳

Seven of our researchers have been awarded over $13.4 million in NHMRC Ideas Grants to work on projects ranging from newborn health to viral & bacterial infections. Read more 👉 bit.ly/496uNVH
L-R: Dr Nicole de Weerd, A/Prof Daniel Gough, Dr Ina Rudloff, Prof Graeme Polglase, A/Prof Kate Lawlor, Prof Paul Hertzog, Prof Elizabeth Hartland AM
January 5, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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🚨 Preprint Alert 🚨

We discovered a new regulator of RIG-I-like receptors #MDA5 #RIG-I, which are critical innate immune sensors of #RNA that detect #viral infection.

Check out our #biorxiv #preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

tl;dr 🙃 thread below
www.biorxiv.org
November 17, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Dr Abdul Razak & A/Prof Courtney McDonald have discovered inflammation in the womb doesn’t just strike once, it lingers, sometimes for months after birth, continuing to harm fragile neural tissue long after the initial exposure & causing lasting damage to the developing brain

https://bit.ly/3JOweh
Dr Abdul Razak and A/Prof Courtney McDonald in their lab at Hudson Institute
November 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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1 in 10 babies is born too soon. #PretermBirth is the leading cause of death and disability in children.

Baby Elias was born at just 22 weeks, no bigger than a soft drink, fighting to survive. Tiny babies like Elias are at risk of brain injury from inflammation, which can cause lifelong conditions.
Tiny patients. Big breakthroughs.
November 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Prof Kate Loveland, Dr Julia Young & Dr Penny Whiley's latest research has pinpointed the essential role that the importin 5 protein (IPO5) plays in sperm formation. #MaleInfertility

Learn more in the Society for the Study of Reproduction journal, Biology of Reproduction, & ➡️ https://bit.ly/4hUt20G
Distribution of importin 5 (IPO5) protein (in red) and two spermatogonial markers GILZ (in yellow) and GFRA1 (in green) in normal testis.
November 12, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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CoLab is funding $770,000 for two biobanks - Monash Children’s Cancer Biobank & the Hudson Institute Living Biobank, helping researchers access high-quality samples and develop safer treatments.
Read story here - tinyurl.com/banking-on-a...
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#ChildrensCancer #Biobank
November 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Half the funding. Half the future.
The Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) was meant to deliver $1B a year — only $650M is reaching researchers.
Join the call to release the full MRFF.
www.aamri.org.au/mrff
#releasethefullmrff
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@jimchalmers.bsky.social
Image: Child in a hospital bed looking at a researcher, half colour, half black and white. Main heading: Half the funding. Half the future. Sub heading: Ask Canberra to keep its promise to medical research. Text: Breakthroughs don’t happen on broken promises. Tagline: Release the full Medical Research Future Fund aamri.org.au/mrff
October 27, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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“As an independent you need to find areas that matter, that you can make a difference… I’m the only person who’s ever asked a question about medical research funding in the House.”

- Dr @mon4kooyong.bsky.social MP at AAMRI’s President’s Breakfast, on making a difference. #2025AAMRIConvention
November 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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We were honoured to welcome Minister Danny Pearson to showcase a major breakthrough in #Lupus treatment – an RNA-based topical drug developed right here in Clayton.

Read more in today's Herald Sun, and here: https://bit.ly/43EVn4X
November 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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🔬 Our annual Young Women in Science program was a huge success this year, giving ten Year 10 students from Melbourne’s south-east the opportunity to explore their passion for science.

Thank you to program coordinator, Dr Fiona Cousins & all the supervisors who guided & mentored the students.
November 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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What work is needed to detect the difference between viral and bacterial infection in newborns? Check out our new commentary on work by Fueri et al looking at interferon mRNA signatures to detect newborn non-bacterial infection rdcu.be/eKb9p
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Commentary on ‘Early diagnosis of serious bacterial infection in febrile infants using type I interferon signature’ by Fueri, Bellini and group
Pediatric Research - Commentary on ‘Early diagnosis of serious bacterial infection in febrile infants using type I interferon signature’ by Fueri, Bellini and group
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October 10, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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It's starting! The @hudsonresearch.bsky.social 's Young Women in Science week! Excited to be a mentor 🤩👩‍🔬🔬🧫🧬
October 20, 2025 at 3:20 AM