Latest funding for NHMRC and MRFF initiatives announced

Congratulations to our staff and partners across the School of Biomedical Sciences for their recent successes in the NHMRC and MRFF funding rounds.

Coronavirus Research Response

Professor Stephen Kent Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Peter Doherty Institute
Chimeric next generation COVID vaccines

Professor Joseph Torresi Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Peter Doherty Institute
AdaptiVax-CoV: A Novel Self-adjuvanting SARS-CoV2 VLP Vaccine to Produce Humoral and T cell responses to S, E and M proteins

Prof Dale Godfrey Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Peter Doherty Institute
A safe, effective, and rapidly tuneable SARS-CoV-2 vaccine

Prof Katherine Kedzierska Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Peter Doherty Institute
Defining immune responses in COVID-19 to understand susceptibility and target treatments

Emerging Priorities and Consumer Driven Research Initiative  

Dr Alexander Barrow Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Peter Doherty Institute
Role of the NKp44-PDGF-DD axis in Glioblastoma

Genomics Health Futures Mission

Prof Benjamin Howden Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Peter Doherty Institute
Precision Public Health in Australia through Integrated Pathogen Genomics

Prof Deborah Williamson Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Peter Doherty Institute
META-GP: Delivering a Clinical Metagenomics Platform for Australia

Global Health Initiative  

Prof Lachlan Coin Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Peter Doherty Institute
Rapid characterisation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from sputum

Stem Cell Therapies Mission

Dr Lincon Stamp Florey Institute and Department of Anatomy and Physiology
Stem cell therapies for digestive disease

Professor Alice Pebay Department of Surgery, Department of Anatomy and Physiology
Novel SMART AAV vectors for gene therapy for Friedreich’s Ataxia (led by University of Wollongong)

MRFF info