We are delighted to announce that Ritchie Centre senior scientists Professor Stuart Hooper and Dr Graeme Polglase and their team have been awarded a highly prestigious National Institutes for Health (NIH) grant for their research into how a fetus transitions into a baby at the time birth.
Everyone of us has done it - changed from a fetus to a newborn baby - and yet, amazingly, our understanding of how each of us navigate this "transition" remains limited.
This world leading research, led by Stuart and Graeme, using state-of-the-art imaging afforded by the Synchrotron, seeks to answer the most fundamental unknowns about this critical journey that each of us make. Why is this work so important?
Most babies "transition" with remarkable ease but many, particularly those born very premature, do not and need help to survive. Unfortunately, this "help" often causes harm, harm that can lead to life-long disability, including brain injury resulting in cerebral palsy.
Stuart and his team know that if we better understand the physiology of transition it will be possible to improve how we resuscitate these most fragile of babies at their most vulnerable time.
This work, funded by the US NIH, is set to change the care of newborn babies in Birth Suites worldwide.
Well done team. We are very proud of your work and countless babies will be all the better for it.
#onlyacurewilldo #savingbabieslives #ausynch
Euan Wallace
Director
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