Cord reinfusion in diabetes: Phase 1

Professor Maria Craig – Principal Investigator

Professor Maria Craig is a Senior Staff Specialist in Paediatric Endocrinology at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and Professor of Paediatric Endocrinology at the University of Sydney. She also holds appointments at St George Hospital and in the School of Women’s and Children’s Heath, University of NSW. She is a clinician researcher and is the recipient of a NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship.

Maria completed her MBBS from the University of Melbourne in 1989, and subsequently specialised in general paediatrics and paediatric endocrinology at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead. She was awarded her PhD from the University of Sydney in 2002, investigating the association between enterovirus infection and type 1 diabetes. Maria has since been undertaking large-scale cohort studies of at-risk children to investigate the link between viruses and diabetes. She is a principal investigator for the Environmental Determinants of Islet Autoimmunity (ENDIA study, endia.org.au) and the Australasian Diabetes Data Network (ADDN, addn.org.au). She is an author on more than 200 publications and is an editor for the International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD) clinical care guidelines.

Professor Peter Shaw

Peter Shaw is a Clinical Professor in Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Sydney. He heads the Blood and Marrow Transplant Service at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and has over 30 years’ experience in using allogeneic BMT to cure a variety of genetic diseases as well as childhood cancer.

Peter’s major interest in safer patient treatments has led him to develop studies using T-cell depletion, drug pharmacokinetics as well as collaborations in cellular and gene therapy translational research. He is a major local contributor to international collaborative studies of groups such as the Children’s Oncology Group and Paediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Consortium.