The Ritchie Centre

Location

Hudson Institute of Medical Research 27–31 Wright Street Clayton VIC 3168 t: >+61 3 8572 2877 e: >caroline.menara@hudson.org.au w: >hudson.org.au/research-centre/the-ritchiecentre/

Centre Head

Professor Stuart Hooper

The Ritchie Centre is Australia’s premier clinical and research Centre for women, babies and children. The Ritchie Centre offers a unique setting where research advances can be rapidly applied for the benefit of women, seriously ill infants and children. This has led to rapid translation of its basic research into clinical trials and clinical practice.

The Ritchie Centre is strategically located within the Monash Medical Centre. Integration into the daily life of the hospital means that its researchers are able to develop research in response to the complications that present in the clinical setting and demonstrated the value of bringing together a critical mass of dedicated scientists and clinicians to undertake translational research.

The Centre’s mission to improve the health of women, infants and children through innovative research is achieved through its unique associations as the principal research Centre of the Monash University Department

of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and the Department

of Paediatrics, Monash Women’s Services, Monash Newborn and Melbourne Children’s Sleep Centre. It is also a major research partner of the Monash Children’s Hospital.

The Ritchie Centre has over 150 research staff and students, including fetal physiologists, sleep physiologists, immunologists, stem cell biologists, neonatologists, paediatricians, obstetricians, gynaecologists, and radiologists.

Research Groups Heads

Women’s Health

Prof Caroline Gargett

Fetal & Neonatal Health: Respiratory & Cardiovascular

A/Prof Graeme Polglase

Fetal & Neonatal Health: Brain Injury & Neurodevelopment

A/Prof Suzie Miller

Infant and Child Health

Prof Rosemary Horne

Cell Therapy & Regenerative Medicine

A/Prof Rebecca Lim