Since launching in 2021, our research teams at Fiona Stanley Hospital and Perth Children's Hospital have been steadily building a vital resource of biological samples including blood, urine, stool, hair, and skin swabs from adult and paediatric burn patients and their caregivers.
As of April 2025
- 321 participants have been recruited through Fiona Stanley Hospital
- 461 participants have been recruited through Perth Children's Hospital
- A combined total of 782 participants supporting this vital research
To help expand this valuable dataset, Nat from the Fiona Stanley Hospital team recently visited to collect control skin swabs with some very willing volunteers from the FWF team! These samples will provide important comparison points for our researchers. There really is no such thing as a typical day at FWF!
Thank you to our incredible research teams and to our burn family where patients so selflessly choose to participate in research, often in the early stages of recovery, to help make tomorrow better for other burn survivors.
Now that the biobank has grown significantly, we must move into the next phase of the project: developing the Burn Injury Data Platform. A data platform will allow us to fully harness the data collected from adult and paediatric burn patients and their caregivers enabling the safe integration and analysis of complex datasets to drive new insights and deliver better outcomes for burn survivors.
Designed as a model of cutting-edge data management, the Burn Injury Data Platform will:
- Enhance knowledge sharing across research, clinical, and community partners
- Foster collaboration by connecting researchers with actionable insights
- Optimise local research talent and capability to develop meaningful interventions
- Support advanced analytics that inform person-centred care and policy
Securing funding for the Burn Injury Data Platform is now a key priority of the Foundation.
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