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On Thursday 24 November, the Kirby Institute held its 6th Brett Tindall Memorial Lecture, our annual lecture awarded to a world leader in infectious disease research. The event was opened by Professor Andrew Grulich, and Associate ...

Australia’s world-first human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program will dramatically reduce the incidence of cancer of the cervix for several decades, according to new research published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has visited the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney to announce a $70 million funding boost to build the capacity of Australia’s next generation of medical researchers. The investment in the ...

Gonorrhoea and syphilis diagnoses are increasing in Australia, HIV is stable, and more than 30,000 Australians have been cured of hepatitis C, according to the latest Annual Surveillance Report on HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually ...

The Kirby Institute congratulates Professor Lisa Maher AM, Head of our Viral Hepatitis Epidemiology and Prevention Program and NHMRC Senior Research Fellow and Professor Andrew Lloyd AM, Head of our Viral Immunology Systems Program, ...

The Kirby Institute would like to pay tribute to the life and service of Adjunct Associate Professor Levinia Crooks AM, who sadly passed away overnight. Levinia was a dedicated leader in her role as CEO of the Australasian Society for ...

The Kirby Institute and its Director Scientia Professor David Cooper were delighted to receive the prestigious President’s Award at the 2017 ACON Honour Awards.  Now in its 11th year, the Honour Awards is an annual event which ...

The Kirby Institute is proud to support Australian Marriage Equality, and have formalised our support via the Australian Marriage Equality website. Since its establishment, the Kirby Institute has maintained a strong collaborative ...

Dr Marianne Martinello, Infectious Diseases Physician and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Kirby Institute’s Viral Hepatitis Clinical Research Program, was awarded the Kirby Institute Postgraduate Student Prize on Tuesday 12 ...

Kirby Institute alumni Dr James Ward, who is now the Head of Infectious Diseases Research – Aboriginal Health at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), has been awarded the NHMRC Rising Star Research ...

Two world-first trials involving mass administration of a drug that virtually eliminated scabies, a neglected tropical disease, have won a prestigious Australian Museum Eureka Prize.  The Scabies Research Team who led these two ...

The Kirby Institute's Mr Christian Trevgoda, Senior Project Coordinator, visited Bandung and Jakarta, Indonesia on 24th – 26th July 2017 for a field trip to meet members of the HATI Study team. The HIV Awal (Early) Testing & ...

(Sydney, Wednesday 23 August 2017) NSW Health has today announced a rapid and dramatic decline in HIV infections in New South Wales. The number of people diagnosed with HIV in the first half of 2017 is the lowest on record for any ...

An exciting opportunity is on offer for a full time PhD scholar to work with the Immunovirology and Pathogenesis Program at the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney. We are on the lookout for someone who is interested in the field of ...

On Thursday 27 July, the Kirby Institute held a special World Hepatitis Day event which brought together key stakeholders and community members in NSW to celebrate Australia’s significant achievements in hepatitis C treatment. Ms

(Sydney, Friday 28 July 2017) Australia is on track to eliminate hepatitis C by 2026, a new report released by the Kirby Institute on World Hepatitis Day shows. According to the data, almost 40,000 Australians have begun hepatitis C ...

Paris, France – 25 July 2017 Results from the largest study to analyse HIV transmission risk among homosexual couples with differing HIV status have shown that HIV positive men who are on treatment that makes the virus undetectable, do ...

UNSW Associate Professor Rebecca Guy has been honoured at the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Research Excellence Awards for her research on HIV and sexually transmitted infections. The Kirby Institute ...