Welcome to the Raine Study Symposium 2025 resources page for the event which was held on Friday 7 November at the University Club of Western Australia. We showcased an exciting and informative mix of achievements over the past 12 months and featured highlights of our two outgoing directors over their five year tenure.
This year’s theme was Collaboration, and highlighted the power of working together to shape impactful, participant-driven health and wellbeing discoveries. Explore the presentations below and hear from the keynote speaker, researchers, students and early career researchers present their study’s findings, and much more.
2025 RSS Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country, Professor Romola Bucks
RSS 2025 His Excellency Chris Dawson Co-Patron and Governor of Western Australia. Opening Address.
RSS 2025 Minister Stephen Dawson, MLC
RSS 2025 Professor Amit Chakma, University of Western Australia Vice Chancellor. Address to the Symposium.
RSS 2025 Looking Back and Moving Forward Romola Bucks and Rebecca Glauert. Five Years of Collaboration.
RSS 2025 Blake Lawrence, Curtin University. Beyond Calories In Calories out: The Psychosocial Origins of Obesity
RSS 2025 Generation 3 Contributing to the Future of Research.
RSS 2025 Subasree Veluswamy, University of Western Australia, Winner Student Researcher Award. Sex-Specific Effects of Hepatic Steatosis on Cardiac Remodeling in Young Adults: Insights from MRI and Implications
RSS 2025 Brianna Bird, Lions Eye Institute, Student Presentation. Rates of Myopia in Generation 3.
RSS Miriam Al Musawi, Edith Cowan University, Student Presentation, Drinking within Limits: Exploring the Link Between Recommended Alcohol Consumption and Depression.
RSS 2025 Dr Michael Dallo, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Student Presentation. MRI Assessed Cardiac Structure and Function in Young Adult Offspring of Hypertensive Pregnancies.
RSS 2025 Dr Amber Beynon, Lions Eye Institute, Early Career Researcher Presentation. Relationship between Epigenetic Age Acceleration and Sub-clinical Inflammatory Trajectories from Adolescence into Early Adulthood.
RSS 2025 Dr Gareth Lingham, Lions Eye Institute, Early Career Researcher Presentation Winner. Comprehensive Eye Growth Charts to Assess Eye Growth and Short-sightedness Across Continents.
RSS 2025 Dr Fuling Chen, University of Western Australia, Early Career Presentation. Explainable AI for Predicting BMI Trajectories from Childhood to Early Adulthood using Genetic and Early-life Factors.
Back again: A Generation 2 participant's journey.
RSS 2025 Dr Nicola Gray, Murdoch University on Phenomics, Populations and Precision Medicine. Phenomics, Populations and Precision Medicine - Linking Early-life to Lifelong Health.
RSS 2025 Spencer Xu, University of Western Australia, Intern Project Presentation. From Research to Policy: Evalluating the Raine Study's Impact on Policy over 35 Years.
RSS 2025 Generation 1 Commitment and Collaboration: The Blumer Family's Journey
RSS 2025 Dr Mark Watson, Murdoch University, Converting Samples into a Global Data Resource. Data Raine's Supreme: Converting Samples into a Global Data Resource.
RSS 2025 Campfire Conversation with the Raine Study Generations Team. The Participant Engagement Team share stores of collaborating with participants - a behind the scenes look on fostering enduring connections.
RSS 2025 Professor Emmanuel Mignot, Stanford University. AI in Sleep Medicine Toward Foundation Models.
2025 RSS Closing Address Catherine Resnick Raine Study Board Chair.
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