We recently sat down with Clinical Research Nurse Gabriella Abbate to learn more about what it’s like behind the scenes in the largest preclinical ICU in the southern hemisphere and what she find most rewarding about critical care research.

After five years with the Critical Care Research Group, Research Assistant Mahe Bouquet recently hung up her lab coat and says it will be the diversity of the projects and people that she’ll miss the most.

CCRG’s Living Heart Project looking for new new Postdoctoral Research Fellow to take study to the next level. This is an exciting opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to focus their efforts on developing their research profile.

For Research Nurse, Sofia Portatadino a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to move to Australia led to her discovering a passion for working in a preclinical environment.

The experience gained from being involved in translational research firsthand will no doubt have a tremendous impact on my research career.

I have no doubt that my experience at CCRG and being exposed to translational research will have a significant impact on my life, and my career as a medical doctor.

After moving to Australia from Japan more than three years ago, former CCRG Research Nurse Noriko Sato played a key role in many preclinical studies.

Senior Research Assistant, Rachana Panduru, travelled, worked and studied in more than 10 countries before join the team.

Before joining CCRG, Barbara Zangerl was working as a Cardiac Nurse at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

CCRG collaborators have today declared a new method of donor heart preservation a gamechanger for heart transplantation in Australia and New Zealand.

Earlier this month, we farewelled one of our longest serving CCRG Research Fellows, Dr Kei Sato, as he and his family return to Japan after four years. We sat down with Dr Sato to reflect on his time with CCRG.

Dr Nchafatso Obonyo has been acknowledged in the prestigious Africa Forty Under 40 Awards.

Thank you to The Australian Health Editor, Natasha Robinson, for the front-page profile of CCRG’s Living Heart Project on January 28, 2023. Read full article here.

A message from Critical Care Research Group Founder Professor John Fraser on the group’s world-first ICU of the Future Project.

Five years in the making, CCRG unveils the ICU of the Future

CCRG hosts Professor Kathryn Maitland OBE for exclusive Brisbane tour

A network of international researchers have documented how extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), the life-saving blood oxygen therapy, changes the dosing requirements of antibiotics in critically ill patients, in a study that is set to change the way ECMO is used and administered and improve outcomes for the health system’s sickest patients.

The Critical Care Research Group has discovered how COVID-19 damages the heart, opening the door to future treatments.

CCRG to host Professor Kathryn Maitland OBE for exclusive Brisbane tour.