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Only a small proportion of Sydney’s population were infected by SARS-CoV-2 earlier this year, a new report co-led by the Kirby Institute says. Australia’s first population-level antibody study designed to shed light on how many people ...

A clinical trial across 12 countries will test a potential COVID-19 treatment, using antibodies purified from plasma taken from people who have recovered from the disease. Researchers from the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney together ...

1.4 million has been awarded to a collaboration between researchers in Indonesia, the United Kingdom and Australia, co-led by the Kirby Institute’s Professor Virginia Wiseman. Whilst medical and healthcare workforce resources have ...

A combined $7.55 million has been awarded to two immunology projects at the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney via the Australian Government’s highly competitive Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) scheme. $6.6 million has been awarded ...

A new publication from researchers at UNSW Sydney advises daily washing of cloth masks to reduce the likelihood of contamination and transmission of viruses like SARS-CoV-2. Cloth masks must be washed daily at high temperatures to be ...

Almost half of gay and bisexual men (GBM) who were using PrEP have stopped using it during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research from the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney published today in the Journal of Acquired Immune ...

Kirby Institute’s Professor Andrew Lloyd and Associate Professor Garrett Prestage have each received NHMRC Partnership grants of over $1 million, announced yesterday by the Federal Government. The grants will support the delivery of ...

People with asthma will be donning face masks this bushfire season to test whether COVID-19-type coverings can also protect vulnerable lungs from smoke. Respiratory experts at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research in Sydney along ...

When Chuck Feeney pledged $10 million to the Kirby Institute in 2011, he was investing in a smaller institute. He was impressed by the people who worked there, and he wanted to invest in ‘good researchers’. In 2011, no one had heard of ...

Scientia Professor Gregory Dore and Professor Raina MacIyntre from the Kirby Institute have been named as finalists for the Australian Museum’s Eureka Prize. Presented annually, 17 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes are awarded across ...

Indonesia has lost one of its true leaders in public health with the passing of Professor Dewa Nyoman Wirawan early yesterday in Bali. Professor Wirawan was Professor of Epidemiology at the Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University in ...

Congratulations to Dr Mohamed A. Hammoud, who was awarded the Kirby Institute’s Postgraduate Student Prize for 2020. Dr Hammoud is a Research Fellow with the Kirby Institute’s HIV Epidemiology and Prevention Program (HEPP). He

Although the COVID-19 pandemic has prevented in-person gatherings and celebrations this year, colleagues from the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney and ViiV Healthcare were delighted to attend a virtual celebration with the participants of ...

The latest report by The Australian Needle Syringe Program (NSP) Survey marks 25 years of significant research conducted in partnership with a marginalised community, and reveals the key trends of the last decades. The NSP Survey ...

The Kirby Institute celebrates the exceptional career of Emeritus Professor Praphan Phanuphak, who has retired after a decades-long career in HIV research and leadership in Thailand and globally. “Professor Praphan’s decades of ...

While the development of highly curative direct-acting antiviral (DAA) therapy has transformed the treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) around the world, a cross-disciplinary approach to prevention and treatment, like that adopted by ...

A new study has confirmed what researchers already suspected to be the case: heat inactivates SARS-CoV-2 in human milk. Republished with permission from UNSW Newsroom A team of medical researchers has found that in human milk, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has instigated a dramatic shift in the way that we work, study and gather, and one event that has been impacted is the graduation ceremonies that mark the completion several years of intensive and dedicated study, ...