Murdoch Children’s Research Institute is celebrating a major milestone in its mission to improve the health and wellbeing of children.
Murdoch Children's Research Institute is celebrating 40 years of working to improve the lives of young people through world-leading science. Murdoch Children’s Research Institute is celebrating a major milestone in its mission to improve the health and wellbeing of children.
The country’s largest research institute of its kind, MCRI has been delivering world-leading research in its field for four decades. More than 1,800 researchers are involved with the Institute, targeting more than 150 diseases which affect young people. Philanthropist Dame Elisabeth Murdoch supported paediatrician Professor David Danks in setting up the original institute in 1986. MCRI has continued its commitment to improving children's health outcomes and diagnoses of paediatric conditions, as well as developing early interventions and new treatments.
MCRI co-Chair of the Board and Global Ambassador Sarah Murdoch said the impact of the organisation’s innovative research was “enormous”. Murdoch Children’s Research Institute is celebrating 40 years of service. Picture: Josie Hayden/News Corp Australia “The science gives me a lot of pride and we should be proud as Australians,” Ms Murdoch told Sky News National Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Lea.
Ms Murdoch has been involved with the institute for more than 25 years and has her own personal connection to its mission. She shared that her family had benefited from cutting-edge science targeting health conditions affecting children.
“What really struck home for me is when my children were unwell and I remember driving my son to the hospital and handing over a very sick child just hoping they had the answers for me, and of course they did,” Ms Murdoch said. “But without all the medical research in the years before that to develop that medication for my son, could have been a very different outcome.
” MCRI co-Chair of the Board Sarah Murdoch shared that her own family had benefited from cutting-edge science targeting health conditions affecting children. Picture: Sky News AustraliaThe Institute has also operated in more than 125 countries with more than 11,000 collaborations around the world.
“The level of the research that is being done is not only benefiting Australian children but benefiting children all around the world," Ms Murdoch said. Ms Murdoch said what Australians should be “most proud of” is the institute’s researchers themselves.
“Here are people who have dedicated their lives, some of our most brilliant minds by the way, dedicating their lives to helping find answers for sick children,” she said.
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