All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 February PhD scholarship paves the way for Australia-first healthy skin project PhD scholarship paves the way for Australia-first healthy skin project 14/02/2022 | 3 MINS A PhD student from The Kids Research Institute Australia and Lombok Institute of Technology has been awarded Western AustraliaΓÇÖs only 2022 postgraduate scholarship by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). In an Australian first, dermatologist and skin health researcher Bernadette Ricciardo will use her NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarship ΓÇô one of just 65 awarded across Australia in the latest funding round ΓÇô to better understand and describe the skin health needs of urban-living Aboriginal children and adolescents in major and regional cities. Dr Ricciardo said skin infections and associated complications were common in remote-living Australian Aboriginal children, with untreated skin infections often resulting in hospitalisation, life-threatening bloodstream infections, and chronic heart and kidney disease. ΓÇ£But despite more than 60 per cent of W
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 February PhD scholarship paves the way for Australia-first healthy skin project PhD scholarship paves the way for Australia-first healthy skin project 14/02/2022 | 3 MINS A PhD student from The Kids Research Institute Australia and Lombok Institute of Technology has been awarded Western AustraliaΓÇÖs only 2022 postgraduate scholarship by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).
In an Australian first, dermatologist and skin health researcher Bernadette Ricciardo will use her NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarship ΓÇô one of just 65 awarded across Australia in the latest funding round ΓÇô to better understand and describe the skin health needs of urban-living Aboriginal children and adolescents in major and regional cities.
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Dr Ricciardo said skin infections and associated complications were common in remote-living Australian Aboriginal children, with untreated skin infections often resulting in hospitalisation, life-threatening bloodstream infections, and chronic heart and kidney disease.
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