Meet the hardworking people who coordinate our world-leading clinical research  The Kirby Institute is a world leader in clinical research, and has been coordinating large-scale trials, in Australia and internationally, for more ...

Dr Behzad Hajarizadeh is a Senior Lecturer and NHMRC fellow in the Viral Hepatitis Clinical Research Program at the Kirby Institute. Behzad received Medicine's research excellence as an early career academic at last year's Research and ...

(SYDNEY, Wednesday 17 April 2019) A new study from the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney has found that with the move from pap smear to DNA testing for human papillomavirus (HPV) to prevent cervical cancer, there is risk that a now rare ...

(VIENNA, Saturday 13 April 2019) Hepatitis C treatments are safe and highly curable, even when patients are not monitored in the clinic throughout the treatment period, according to new Kirby Institute research presented at the ...

The Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney has received $2.2 million from the National Health and Medical Research Council, industry and other partners for a world-first study, called TEMPO, which will test a new intervention to scale-up ...

To mark the one-year anniversary of the passing of Professor David Cooper AC, much-beloved inaugural Director of the Kirby Institute and world-renowned immunology expert, UNSW held a small gathering to honour David’s legacy and support ...

The majority of Australian parents are susceptible to influence by vaccine messages from political and medical leaders, according to a new study by researchers at UNSW Sydney. Elissa Zhang, a medical student from UNSW Medicine, was ...

The Kirby Institute’s Dr Louise Causer was awarded the Frank Fenner Early Career Fellowship at the NHMRC’s Research Excellence Awards dinner last night in Canberra. The award recognises Dr Causer as the top-ranked successful NHMRC ...

A team from the Therapeutic and Vaccine Research Program (TVRP) at the Kirby Institute recently travelled to Conakry, Guinea in order to prepare to open an international randomised trial of simplified HIV second-line therapy at Donka ...

Today, the Kirby Institute launched a new research capacity building initiative, the Cooper HIV/AIDS Research Training (CHART) Program.  Thanks to an unconditional grant from ViiV Healthcare, the Kirby Institute has developed a ...

(Sydney, Monday 18 February 2019) The risk of biosecurity threats is increasing, and an attack could expose vulnerabilities in global systems with potentially catastrophic effects, a white paper published today in the first edition of ...

“The place was magical, intimate and democratic.” This is how the Honourable Michael Kirby AC, former Justice of the High Court of Australia and patron of the Kirby Institute, described the Purple Onion, Sydney’s first gay bar. “If ...

(Sydney, 31 January 2019) Leading international HIV researcher and clinician, Professor Anthony Kelleher, has been appointed Director of the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney. The Kirby Institute has been at the forefront of ...

Kirby Institute research on the sexual health and wellbeing of Australians, HPV vaccination in South African adolescent girls, and improving early treatment initiation for HIV has been supported by almost $4 million in the latest round ...

A new study led by the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney will explore the impact of support services on the experiences and wellbeing of people who have recently been diagnosed with HIV in Australia. Although HIV diagnoses in Australia ...

The Kirby Institute is delighted to announce that Greg Dore, Head of the Viral Hepatitis Clinical Research Program, has been appointed UNSW Scientia Professor.  Appointment as a UNSW Scientia Professor recognises outstanding ...

UNSW Sydney has appointed nine new Scientia PhD scholarships to the Kirby Institute in 2019. These students will be supervised by Kirby Institute academics who are leaders in their fields, and they will undertake research that will ...

The Kirby Institute has hosted the first of a series of workshops training GPs in techniques to improve screening for anal cancer, thanks to generous ongoing funding from The Glendonbrook Foundation. The workshops include a procedure ...