A/Prof Jennifer Flegg awarded ARC Future Fellowship
August 13, 2021
Congratulations to Associate Professor Jennifer Flegg (School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne) who was recently awarded…
Ms Parinaz Mehdipour receives presentation award
August 2, 2021
Congratulations to PhD student Parinaz Mehdipour who was awarded the winner of the Sue Finch Data Visualisation Award for her…
Malaria in the Asia Pacific: A Complex But Solvable Problem
May 3, 2021
Eliminating malaria from the Asia Pacific by 2030 is an ambitious but achievable goal. It will require sustained political commitment combined with renewed investment in research and development to overcome the unique complexities of malaria in our region.
Dr Sarah Auburn and Dr Michelle Boyle receive over $2.5 million in NHMRC funding to explore adjunctive therapies and novel surveillance tools for malaria
December 16, 2020
Congratulations to Dr Sarah Auburn (Menzies School of Health Research) and Dr Michelle Boyle (QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute) who were…
Parasite genomic surveillance in the control and elimination of malaria
October 9, 2020
Presenters: A/Prof Alyssa Barry, Head of Infectious Diseases Systems Epidemiology Working Group Alyssa was previously a Laboratory Head…
Cost-effectiveness modelling and malaria
September 17, 2020
Presenters: Dr Angela Devine, Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer, Public Health, Menzies School of Health Research Angela Devine…
Associate Professor Leanne Robinson receives Gust-McKenzie Medal
September 2, 2020
Associate Professor Leanne Robinson, one of Australia’s leading vector-borne diseases researchers is Burnet Institute’s Gust-McKenzie Medallist for 2020. Named in…
ACREME researchers awarded prestigious NHMRC Investigator Grants
May 20, 2020
Critical research into the optimal treatment and prevention of malaria will benefit from the latest round of National Health and…
New insights into the functional antibody responses induced by leading malaria vaccine
May 18, 2020
In a paper recently published in Journal of Infectious Diseases, Liriye Kurtovic, James Beeson and team at Burnet Institute have…
Developing a multiscale model combining both within-host and population level information to predict the emergence and spread of antimalarial resistance
March 16, 2020
Understanding and controlling the spread of antimalarial resistance is a major challenge for malaria elimination. Mathematical models, synthesising existing data…