Dr Shelley Wilkinson is a Senior Research Dietitian at the Mater Mothers' Hospital who is undertaking research to help women have healthier pregnancies.

Mater Research is planning the largest group cohort study in the state since the 1980s, aiming to follow 10 000 Queensland families over three decades.

Mater Researchers Dr Jyai Allen and Professor Sue Kildea recently secured funding for a Thompson Method breastfeeding study aimed at increasing breastfeeding rates for new mothers

Congratulations to Helen Liley for her promotion to Professor by The University of Queensland.

Mater Research is undertaking the largest study of induction of labour ever undertaken, here at the Mater Mothers’ Hospitals.

RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, is a virus that infects the lungs and breathing passages and can hospitalise young and premature babies through complications like pneumonia.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2017 Early Career Researcher (ECR) seeding grants, Dr Linda Gallo, in the biomedical category, and Dr Mary Ghazawy, in the clinical category.