Members

Women's & Children's Health Research Institute Inc (SA)

Director: Professor Eric Gowans
Deputy Director: Prof Maria Makrides
Business Manager: Ms Kathy Kingston

Principal Areas of Research
Applied nutrition
Basic nutrition
Epithelial biology
Leucocyte biology
Molecular immunology
Nutritional immunology
Virology
Wound healing

Major Current Research
Randomised clinical trials to improve infant nutrition for preterm infants.

Understanding the mechanisms underlying food allergy development.

Regulation of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis.

Molecular loss of intestinal barrier function in barrier diseases of the bowel.

Molecular basis of craniosynostosis.

Discovery and clinical applications of leucocyte surface molecules.

Diagnostics for inflammatory conditions.

Maintenance and expansion of cord blood haemopoietic stem cells.

Molecular identification of regulatory T cells.

Skin biology and mechanisms of wound healing, scar formation, and fragile skin disorders.

Methods to increase the immunogenicity of hepatitis C virus proteins.