Utopia

Our goals

• Develop networks and enhance collaborations.

  • formalise networks/collaborations
  • facilitate bespoke (non-traditional) collaborations.

• Maintain and grow research capacity, support education and knowledge transfer.

  • encourage and fund high quality research
  • partner with clinical school.

• Build translational capacity.

  • support clinicians to engage with research
  • develop clinical-research network across the precinct to advocate and normalize translation of research into clinical practice.

• Adapt to research priorities for clinical and educational needs.

  • partner with local, state, and national bodies.

Research strengths

General expertise in paediatric infectious diseases spanning bench-top to bedside to population levels.

Three core pillars of expertise 

1. Perinatal disease

• Epidemiological studies
• Interventional studies
• next-gen sequencing, viral resistance, and viromics
• diagnostics
• pathophysiological mechanisms.

2. Antimicrobial resistance and stewardship

• guideline development and clinical practice improvement
• clinical trials
• clinical data collection and analysis.

3. Respiratory disease

• disease surveillance and epidemiology
• vaccine trials
• genomics (host and pathogen).

Our results

• Scheduled team meetings to develop and progress collaborative efforts.

• Development of working groups targeting specific research questions/funding calls.

• Integration with academic and clinical establishments.

Our experts