Lecturer and researcher Adam Ritchie spent his high school years in detention, but more recently the academic played a major role in the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine distribution, saving millions of lives.  On his school report cards, Ritchie was described as ...

The first Australian lab to manufacture the mRNA vaccine has some good news for those concerned about the efficacy of the Covid-19 jab against the new Omicron variant. The Monash University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences on Tuesday said it was well prepared ...

Australian volunteers are being sought to participate in a clinical trial involving a needle-free Covid-19 vaccine. Phase 1, being human trials, for COVALIA began this week at participating institutes the Scientia Clinical Research in Sydney, the Telethon Kids Institute in ...

An Australian professor has shone a light on the Covid‐19 variant that is wreaking havoc on Victoria. UNSW associate professor Stuart Turville said the Indian strain, as it has become known, was one of three that had spread throughout the ...

Australia should use game theory and social network models in its vaccination strategy to ensure for the best possible outcomes. The was the key point raised in a position paper authored by an international consortium of experts led by the ...

The University of Queensland announced today that it will not progress its COVID-19 vaccine candidate to the next stage of clinical trials due to an unexpected finding in phase 1. Data revealed that participants returned false positive HIV test results. ...

As the race to make a COVID-19 vaccine safe and commercially available gathers steam, new research has revealed University of Oxford and AstraZeneca’s potential jab produced promising results in older adults. Full trial results are expected by Christmas but late-stage ...

Australians want frontline nurses, paramedics and aged care and disability workers to be first in line to receive a COVID-19 vaccine jab. That was one of the findings of an Australian National University survey that sought out attitudes of more ...

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) wants Australia to quickly develop a national plan to distribute a COVID-19 vaccination. AMA president Dr Omar Khorshid said it was pleasing to see that efforts of the medical and scientific community to fast track ...

A COVID-19 vaccine developed by the University of Queensland is now ready to be tested on humans. The promising treatment is being developed and manufactured simultaneously, in what is an Australian first. "Whilst these studies are underway, we will still ...