It aims to find new ways of treating and ultimately stopping viruses from HIV to coronaviruses. Read more at straitstimes.com.
LONDON - A new research institution being launched in Australia will aim to develop drugs to treat diseases caused by pathogens with the potential to cause global pandemics more quickly.
Vaccines to protect against Covid-19 were developed in record time, but antiviral drugs took longer, with the first approved for use just under two years after Covid-19 was first detected in Wuhan, China at the end of 2019. The Cumming Centre is backed by a A$250 million donation from Mr Geoff Cumming, a Canadian businessman now living in Australia, for use over two decades. The Centre aims to ultimately raise A$1.5 billion, including funding from governments.
"Our goal is to develop and invest in new technologies that will allow much more rapid development of anti-viral therapeutics - a bit like how we could make a vaccine so quickly, with mRNA, because all we needed was a target sequence," said Dr Sharon Lewin, an HIV researcher and professor of medicine at the University of Melbourne, who will lead the Centre.
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