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The Kirby Institute has been awarded $13 million in funding from the Australian Government’s National Health and Medical Research Council, announced today by Health Minister, The Hon Greg Hunt. This includes three grants for ...

Self-testing kits increase access to HIV testing, especially among hard-to-reach, high-risk population groups, a new study by the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney shows.  Gay and bisexual men are at increased risk of HIV, and ...

A new PhD scholarship to train the next generation of infectious disease researchers has been announced in acknowledgement of the Kirby Institute’s inaugural Director, the late Professor David Cooper. The Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney ...

A cross-faculty team at UNSW, led by the Kirby Institute’s Professor Raina MacIntyre, has been named a finalist in the Australian Museum’s Eureka Prize, an annual presentation of 17 prizes awarded across four categories including ...

The National Institutes of Health have awarded US$269,612 (approx. AU$371,361) to a Kirby Institute-led study that is set to inform the development of treatments for pre-cancerous anal lesions.  Anal cancer is a rare but ...

The Kirby Institute joins colleagues and friends in Papua New Guinea in mourning the sudden loss of Professor Evelyn Lavu, the country’s most senior pathologist and an internationally recognised leader in the fight against HIV, malaria ...

New research shows that two-thirds of visits to private drug retail outlets resulted in the dispensing of antibiotics without a prescription The problem of antimicrobial resistance – or AMR – is amplified by the incorrect or ...

(SYDNEY, Monday 2 August 2021) At least 15% of people in bushfire affected areas of Australia reported experiencing adverse health effects during the severe summer bushfires of 2019–2020, according to a survey of over 1,000 people, ...

A consortium of Australia’s leading infectious disease research centres – the Kirby, Doherty, and Burnet Institutes – together with international collaborators, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) and FIND, the global alliance ...

It is with sadness that the Kirby Institute joins our colleagues in Myanmar and Australia in grieving the loss of Professor Mar Mar Kyi, a leader in infectious disease research and clinical care in Myanmar, and one of the founders of ...

Australian scientists researching how our immune system responds to COVID-19 have revealed that those infected by early variants in 2020 produced sustained antibodies, however, these antibodies are not as effective against contemporary ...

(SYDNEY, FRIDAY 2 JULY 2021) New research from the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney shows that HIV transmissions are at historically low rates among almost 10,000 high-risk gay and bisexual men on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), the HIV ...

It is with great sadness that the Kirby Institute joins our colleagues at CSL and beyond in mourning the loss of Dr Geoffrey Symonds, a leader in gene therapy development, who passed away overnight after a short illness. Dr Symonds was ...

Researchers from the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney have been awarded $1.59 million from the federal government for new research advancing the elimination of cervical cancer in rural Papua New Guinea. Written by Yolande Hutchison for ...

A portrait of leading epidemiologist and biosecurity expert, Professor Raina MacIntyre, by Sydney artist Karen Black was a finalist in this year’s Archibald Prize. The artwork pays tribute to Professor MacIntyre’s impact and influence ...

Forty years after the first diagnosis of HIV/AIDS, Australian scientists from the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre have uncovered a vital link in the relationship between HIV and ageing. The results ...

In this video, watch how the SARS-CoV-2 virus takes over cells by ‘melting’ them into each other. Researchers at UNSW Sydney’s Kirby Institute have developed cells that allow them to test the effect of SARS-CoV-2 faster than anywhere ...

Australian researchers have identified the immune response associated with protection from COVID-19 – a discovery that may help cut the time it takes to develop new vaccines. (SYDNEY, Monday 17th May 2021) The early immune response in ...