The NHMRC has awarded $3 million for a new Centre for Research Excellence (CRE) to accelerate the scale up of point-of-care testing for infectious diseases in Australia and the Asia-Pacific.Co-led by Professor Rebecca Guy and Associate ...

The American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) Alliance has named the Professor Raina MacIntyre from the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney a finalist in three categories of their 2025 AmCham Alliance Awards. The Awards identify the ...

Australian scientists will kickstart research into how early vaccine studies can safely support faster approvals of vaccines in response to infectious disease outbreaks.FEEVA (a Framework for Evidence Evaluation in Vaccine Assessment) ...

COVID and influenza are at peak circulation in winter, with several million people in Australia getting ill from these respiratory viruses each year.In a post-pandemic world, many Australians now think of influenza as the ...

In collaboration with the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research (PNGIMR), researchers at the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney have been awarded AU$1.025 million to trial a new rapid test for gonorrhoea in clinical and community ...

As Australia heads into the winter COVID and influenza surge, a major study is recruiting people with current flu-like symptoms.Each year several million Australians develop a significant flu-like illness[1], and a portion of these ...