Children's Medical Research Institute

Canberra Private Schools introduces Children's Medical Research Institute in Westmead, for all your education and learning needs.

The Children’s Medical Research Institute conducts fundamental genetic research to understand the genes important for health and development, and the underlying causes of disease.


We have four major areas of research: embryonic development and birth defects, cancer, nerve cell signalling, and gene therapy.


One in 20 children is born with a congenital abnormality or genetic disease.


By studying the key changes that occur during development we can identify when, where and how faults may occur. If small problems can be detected at this stage they could be prevented from becoming big problems, or treated to reduce their impact on our children’s quality of life.


Many diseases that affect adults, such as cancer and epilepsy, have similar basic origins. Our research has the capacity to improve the future health of every man, woman and child everywhere.