Congratulations to the PLATIPUS team of researchers who presented some of their work at the recent PSANZ 2025 conference in Brisbane earlier this month (March 2025).

Poster presentations:

• POSTER 1: Are Clinicians protecting or hindering informed consent? The differing views of parents, clinicians and investigators on consent for perinatal trials.

• POSTER 2: A novel consent matrix to assist perinatal researchers in choosing ethically defensible and evidence-based recruitment and consent methods.

Authors: Amir Muhammad Zayegh, Sophie Gatenby, Trisha Prentice, Angela Ballantyne, Brett Manley, Clare Whitehead, Melinda Cruz, Kate Hicks and Valli Coleman.

Well done team!

A special mention to Amir Muhammad Zayegh (Chair of the PLATIPUS Consent and Ethics Working Group) who was awarded the New Investigator Award – Neonatology for best poster, for his work on consent in perinatal clinical trials. Congratulations, Amir!

Nikki Ranson presented a systematic review of antibiotics in PPROM as part of the PROMOAT study and Benjamin Pearce presented a scoping review of Patient Reported Outcomes (PROMs) in clinical trials in Australia to guide inclusion of PROMs in PLATIPUS.

Featured below are Amir Muhammad Zayegh, Nikki Ranson, Melinda Cruz and Ben Pearce standing with their posters.