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Indigenous young people's resilience and wellbeing

Carrington Shepherd PhD Honorary Research Associate Honorary Research Associate Areas of research expertise: Population health; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health; Social inequalities in health; child mortality. Carrington is an Honorary

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Identifying social pathways to enhanced life outcomes in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children

Carrington Shepherd PhD Honorary Research Associate Honorary Research Associate Areas of research expertise: Population health; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health; Social inequalities in health; child mortality. Carrington is an Honorary

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An investigation of parental mental health among the Aboriginal population in Western Australia, and its impact on children’s outcomes

Carrington Fiona Shepherd Stanley PhD FAA FASSA MSc MD FFPHM FAFPHM FRACP FRANZCOG HonDSc HonDUniv HonFRACGP HonMD HonFRCPCH HonLLB (honoris causa) Honorary Research Associate Patron 08 6319 1176 contact@telethonkids.org.au Honorary Research

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‘Defying the odds’: Exploring the impact of perinatal outcomes, maternal social and health outcomes and level of culturally appropriate service availability on the health of Western Australian Aboriginal infants and children

Carrington Fiona Shepherd Stanley PhD FAA FASSA MSc MD FFPHM FAFPHM FRACP FRANZCOG HonDSc HonDUniv HonFRACGP HonMD HonFRCPCH HonLLB (honoris causa) Honorary Research Associate Patron 08 6319 1176 contact@telethonkids.org.au Honorary Research

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Tissue resident memory T cells: putting cancer cells to sleep and a target for therapy

Alison McDonnell BSc (Hons), PhD Early Career Fellow alison.mcdonnell@telethonkids.org.au Early Career Fellow Dr Alison McDonnell is a post-doctoral scientist with a research focus in cancer immunology. Following a PhD using preclinical models of

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The interplay between sarcoma and surgery-induced wound healing

Timo W. Joost Lassmann Lesterhuis BSc (Hons) MSc PhD Feilman Fellow; Program Head, Precision Health and Head, Computational Biology Program Head, Cancer; Head, Sarcoma Translational Research timo.lassmann@telethonkids.org.au Joost.Lesterhuis@

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Local immunotherapy for sarcoma

Terrance W. Joost Ben Johns Lesterhuis Wylie BSc PhD Honorary Research Associate Program Head, Cancer; Head, Sarcoma Translational Research Senior Research Fellow Joost.Lesterhuis@telethonkids.org.au ben.wylie@telethonkids.org.au Honorary Research

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Determining whether ion-channels influence the response to brain cancer therapeutics

Terrance Brittany Johns Dewdney BSc, MBSc, PhD Honorary Research Associate Postdoctoral Researcher brittany.dewdney@telethonkids.org.au Honorary Research Associate Postdoctoral Researcher Professor Johns is an Honorary Research Associate at The Kids

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Targeting DYRK1A: a key player in Down syndrome Leukaemogenesis

Sébastien Malinge PhD Laboratory Head, Translational Genomics in Leukaemia, Ursula Kees Fellow (CCRF), Cancer Council WA Fellow (CCWA), Senior Research Fellow (UWA), University Associate (Curtin) Sebastien.malinge@telethonkids.org.au Laboratory Head

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Development of new preclinical models of childhood leukaemia

Sébastien Laurence Rishi Sury Malinge Cheung Kotecha PhD BPharm (Hons) MBA PhD MB ChB (Hons) MRCPCH FRACP PhD Laboratory Head, Translational Genomics in Leukaemia, Ursula Kees Fellow (CCRF), Cancer Council WA Fellow (CCWA), Senior Research Fellow (