From clinicians to biologists, physiotherapists to engineers, mental health experts to data scientists, CCRG’s multidisciplinary team is what sets us apart. Only by working together can we take ideas and see them fully realised into new treatment methods that improve the lives of critically ill patients.

Critical Care Research Group takes centre stage at the 11th International Baltic Congress of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Congress

CCRG hosts Professor Samson Kinyanjui to celebrate ongoing collaboration with Kenya’s KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme.

You feel unwell, and visit your doctor. They ask some questions and take some blood for testing; a few days later they call to say you have been diagnosed with a disease.

CCRG recently welcomed Slava Bolotnikov from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne for an 8-week internship placement

Highlighting CCRG’s world leading sepsis research to mark World Sepsis Day 2023. With an estimated incidence of 49 million cases annually of sepsis and a 20% death rate in the developed world, this research has enormous implications for the health outcomes of millions of people.

Read more about CCRG’s ICU of the Future, as featured in The Prince Charles Hospital’s 2022 Research Report.

Read more about CCRG’s ICETLab as featured in The Prince Charles Hospital’s 2022 Research Report.

Our research group is a world leader in the field of critical care research and biomedical engineering, with a focus on developing ground-breaking novel technologies and treatments to improve outcomes for the critically ill.

Luke’s research at CCRG investigates whether lung ultrasound can predict poor lung outcomes in high-risk adult patients undergoing open heart surgery.

Congratulation to CCRG Alumni Dr Kei Sato who has won the best presenter in Mechanical Circulatory Support at a prestigious meeting in Japan.

John Fraser has been announced as BEDA’s inaugural MedTech ambassador for Brisbane

The Critical Care Research Group joins our colleagues around the world in mourning the passing of Professor Paolo Pelosi, MD, FERS.

Critical Care Research Group Founder and Director Prof John Fraser and Dr Silver Heinsar travelled to the USA this month to present at The University of Florida’s SEECMO Meeting.

In this round of grants from The Common Good, five CCRG research fellows were awarded close to $50,000 to undertake projects covering multiple research streams and topics.

CCRG recently hosted Kelly Lee, a medical graduate from Hong Kong, for a two-week exchange as part of our commitment to supporting early and mid-career researchers.

CCRG’s regularly collaborates with many of the world’s leading surgeons, radiologists, data scientists and research assistants. This week those visitors included “Former Charlie’s Greats”

For senior physiotherapist/researcher, Luke Churchill, joining the Critical Care Research Group has helped accelerate his research career.

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.