Announced on Wednesday 13 March, Kirby Institute research aimed to enhance testing and treatment for hepatitis C (HCV) received $2 million through Medical Research Future Fund's Clinical Trials Activity scheme. “Australia could be one ...

Announced on Wednesday 13 March 2023, $5 million from the Medical Research Future Fund has been awarded to a Kirby Institute-led consortium that will boost development of RNA vaccines and therapeutics for COVID-19 and other health ...

Announced by the Hon. Mark Butler, Minister for Health and Ageing, on Wednesday 13 March, a project to develop a global master protocol for randomised, placebo-controlled trials has received almost $2 million in funding through ...

In Australia, a child diagnosed with a parasitic disease, whether scabies caused by skin mites, or one of the various forms of intestinal worms, can expect quick access to simple, curative treatment. But in countries where infection ...

A team of scientists at the UNSW RNA Institute, Garvan Institute of Medical Research and the Kirby Institute can now move forward to the next stage of developing a variant-proof COVID-19 vaccine, thanks to vital funding from the NSW ...

Applications are now open for the David Cooper Scholarship; an opportunity for an outstanding Australian or international candidate to complete a PhD in infectious diseases at the Kirby Institute. Established in 2021 in honour of the ...

The Kirby Institute and St Vincent’s Hospital were pleased to host two colleagues from Papua New Guinea to undertake intensive HIV drug resistance training. Dr Janet Gare and Helen Keno in the St Vincent's HIV Reference ...

The Kirby Institute’s Professor Miles Davenport is among a team of Australian researchers who were named as finalists in the prestigious Prime Minister’s Prize for Science. The team also includes Doherty Institute’s Professor ...

During the pandemic regular serosurveys, testing for antibodies to the virus (SARS-CoV-2) that causes COVID-19, have been used to track the proportion of people infected. Today, results from two complementary national serosurveys, one ...

Congratulations to Dr Nila Dharan, who was awarded the Kirby Institute’s Postgraduate Student Prize for 2022. Nila Dharan is a senior research fellow with the Kirby Institute’s Biostatistics and Databases Program and Therapeutic and ...

Six Kirby Institute researchers have secured a total of $12 million in funding through the highly competitive National Health and Medical Research Council Investigator Grant Scheme.  Research spanning HIV and ageing, masks and ...

The Commonwealth Department of Health has awarded a combined $3.28 million towards two Kirby Institute-led projects as part of the government’s Blood Borne Viruses (BBV) and Sexually Transmissible Infections (STI) Research Program.

Monkeypox (MPX) has emerged as a public health threat internationally, and Australia is at the forefront of responding to the disease through case management, health promotion and vaccination programs. The Kirby Institute is calling ...

The Kirby Institute are proud to celebrate the completions of six PhD students. At the graduation ceremonies held at UNSW in August, Muhammad Riaz, Sichan He, and Anindita Sudewo were conferred their PhDs. Louise Geddes, Georges ...

The Kirby Institute is pleased to continue its partnership with M·A·C Cosmetics, now into its third year, and welcomes a further donation of $46,000. M·A·C Cosmetics fundraise through their Viva Glam products, with the funds generated ...

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There has been a lot of discussion in the media about Omicron-adapted COVID-19 boosters, which are undergoing regulatory approval in several countries. The new booster vaccines, developed by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, are known as ...

Associate Professor Catherine O’Connor was awarded the ASRHA Distinguished Services to Sexual Health Award at the 2022 Joint Australasian HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health Conferences last week. She is a Visiting Senior Fellow with the Sexual ...