The Kirby Institute has been awarded $2.8 million in federal government funding to identify and address gaps in congenital syphilis prevention. Dr Belinda Hengel, Senior Lecturer in the Kirby Institute’s Surveillance, Evaluation ...

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney and aged care provider HammondCare has been awarded $3 million by the NHMRC’s Centres of Research Excellence (CRE) to create and lead a CRE in infection ...

Four Kirby Institute researchers have collectively been awarded more than $8 million in NHMRC Investigator Grants. The scheme supports medical researchers at various stages of their careers and their projects across universities and ...

The Kirby Institute’s Dr Nila Dharan has been awarded $979,355 by the Australian Government’s Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) for research that will improve the identification and management of two diseases of ageing - ...

Tiana Wang the Kirby Institute and UNSW Medicine and Health has been selected for the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science PhD Mentoring Scheme, a prestigious initiative supporting emerging women leaders in STEMM.Ms Wang is one of four ...

Infectious disease physician and inaugural David Cooper Scholar Dr Gail Cross has been awarded her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) for her thesis focusing on the impact of administering an additional medication on the treatment of ...

Ms Lucy Hughes Turnbull AO, a prominent Australian businesswoman and philanthropist, is the inaugural Chair of the Kirby Institute’s newly established External Advisory Committee.

The nation’s leading scientific body has awarded the Gottschalk Medal to the Kirby Institute at UNSW’s Dr David Khoury, in recognition of his work in malaria drug development and vaccine policies for COVID-19 and mpox. Dr Khoury ...

Professor Rowena Bull, a research scientist with expertise in immunovirology, has been appointed Head of the Kirby Institute’s Viral Immunology Systems Program (VISP).   VISP focuses on understanding how viruses spread and cause ...

As a globally recognised health research institute, the Kirby Institute has worked for 40 years to improve the health of people impacted by infectious diseases, responding to the health challenges of the day. The world continues ...

UNSW Sydney will showcase a new collaborative artwork at one of Australia’s most iconic and beloved events, the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.The UNSW Queer Community Quilt was inspired by the iconic 1985 AIDS Memorial Quilt, opens ...

The late Dr Nicholas Medland AM, who passed away on Friday 21 February 2025, has been posthumously awarded one of Australia’s highest honours, a Member of the Order of Australia (AM), in recognition of his significant service to sexual ...

Associate Professor Lucette Cysique and Dr Chansavath Phetsouphanh from the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney have been awarded a total of $1,710,013 in funding through the Medical Research Future Fund’s (MRFF) Post-Acute Sequelae of ...

Viral hepatitis, which includes hepatitis B and hepatitis C, is a major health concern for people in prison globally. Globally, there are more than 11.5 million people who are incarcerated at any one time, and rates of viral hepatitis ...

We are deeply saddened by the heartbreaking news that our colleague Dr Heather McCormack died suddenly and unexpectedly on Thursday 11 December. We join together with a large network of family, friends and colleagues across many ...

Ahead of his retirement, colleagues, friends and family gathered in the Kirby Institute Seminar Room in celebration of the illustrious career of clinician-researcher Professor Andrew Lloyd AM, Head of the Kirby Institute’s Viral ...

Suva, Fiji – A new rapid assessment reveals that unsafe injecting practices, driven by an absence of harm reduction services such as needle/syringe programmes, are putting people who inject drugs in Fiji at increased risk of HIV ...

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has awarded $3.33 million to a Kirby Institute project to enhance screening for anal cancer; a critically under-researched disease caused by persistent infection with high-risk ...