@dfjp

Virologist & researcher (HIV, HTLV, SARS-CoV-2 & others), sailor & wooden boat tragic.

 Melbourne, Au
Joined June 2009
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Damian Purcell retweeted
Viruses MDPI@VirusesMDPI10 Jul 2024
📢 Calling all researchers! Contribute your original research or reviews to our Special Issue: "Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus (HTLV) Infection and Treatment." ❗️Submit now and be a part of groundbreaking discoveries! 👉t.ly/1sJ_b #HTLV1 #research #callforpapers
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A superb lineup to dissect the current and potential future pandemics monkeypox and beyond to wrap up SYD #C192022. ⁦⁦@ProfSharonLewin⁩ ⁦@edwardcholmes⁩
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Damian Purcell retweeted
Trent Munro@trent_munro12 Nov 2021
Why we need to make our own drugs afr.com/policy/health-and-ed… – at Brisbane, Queensland

Why we need to make our own drugs

Australia does come up with great biomedical innovations but this IP is then sent abroad and others grow rich on it. Now, there’s an opportunity to break the mould.

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Damian Purcell retweeted
Cosmos@CosmosMagazine28 Oct 2021
Why do we need a third dose? There’s growing evidence that the efficacy of the COVID vaccines diminishes over several months. @sjturn @dfjp @TheDohertyInst @MonashUni @Swinburne @MurdochUni @UniMelb buff.ly/312yQBH
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Infrared Based Saliva Screening Test for #COVID-19 (Heraud @MonashCfb @clirspec @MonashUni) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Great work from over many, many years from discovery science to implementation that has provided a definitive result and great lasting benefit to the community. Excellent foresight! @Cam_Simmons , @ScottLOneill,
Monash University
@MonashUni14 Jun 2021
A major milestone for @WMPGlobal and a game-changing moment in the fight against mosquito-borne disease. 🦟 Read the publication via @NEJM: mona.sh/AzDy30rKstc #RCT_Yogya #wolbachia
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Damian Purcell retweeted
Moderna
@moderna_tx12 May 2021
We announced a new supply agreement with Australia for 25 million doses of our COVID-19 vaccine, including 10 million doses of our vaccine against the ancestral strain for in 2021 & 15 million doses of our variant booster candidate for delivery in 2022: buff.ly/3eEfcAh
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New vaccine facility to be built in Victoria, but how long until mRNA vaccines are produced in Australia? abc.net.au/radionational/pro…
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RNA therapeutics are a disruptive technology bringing many opportunities for better health. 3 mRNA vaccines researchers are working on (that aren't COVID). theconversation.com/3-mrna-v… via @ConversationEDU @TheDohertyInst @DrCathyFoley @AusVirologySoc @GregHuntMP @MariosKoutsakos

3 mRNA vaccines researchers are working on (that aren’t COVID)

We have two mRNA COVID-19 vaccines so far. But what else can this technology do?

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Can Australia produce mRNA COVID-19 vaccines such as Pfizer? abc.net.au/news/health/2021-…

Yes, Australia can produce other vaccines besides AstraZeneca. Here's why we're not

Australia's slated to produce 50 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, but now those under 50 are being advised to get Pfizer instead. So what's stopping us from making other vaccines locally?

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Editor’s pick from our March issue: @ProfSharonLewin and coll (@GartnerM94 @ThomRasmAUH @dfjp) from @TheDohertyInst @UniMelb propose to use multiply spliced HIV RNA as a surrogate marker to measure virus production after reversal of #HIV latency. Read bit.ly/39pMr7N
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HTLV-1 infects >10 million causing leukaemia, paralysis and premature mortality from immune dysfunction. After waiting for two pandemics (AIDS & COVID) our new @NHMRC funding starts addressing HTLV-1 in the quest for effective drugs and vaccines. authors.elsevier.com/a/1cIA7…
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Damian Purcell retweeted
nature
@Nature21 Jul 2020
Scientists caution against comparing immune responses shown in early-stage trials, and say there might be more than one path to an effective vaccine. nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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An amazing effort to make a clever new type of vaccine now into human trial. Imperial COVID-19 Vaccine Trial | Faculty of Medicine | Imperial College London imperial.ac.uk/covid-19-vacc…

COVAC1: Imperial COVID-19 Vaccine Trial

From the outset of the pandemic, Professor Robin Shattock and colleagues have worked to develop a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine using their innovative, self-amplifying RNA technology. While...

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.@unimelb and Doherty Institute experts explain the complex challenge of creating, testing & distributing a potential vaccine to end the #COVID19 pandemic in #UniMelbPursuit called "Science behind the search for a COVID-19 Vaccine" pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/artic… @UniMelbMDHS @TheRMH

The science behind the search for a COVID-19 vaccine

In a special report, University of Melbourne researchers take us behind the science of creating, testing and distributing a vaccine to end the COVID-19 pandemic

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The battle starts in the lab, but the war is won in delivery! In this years non-Olympic relay UQ pass the batton to AUSpharma CSL for the anchor leg. Coronavirus vaccine research takes step forward as UQ, CSL, CEPI sign deal for human trials and production abc.net.au/news/2020-06-05/c…

Australian COVID-19 vaccine deal raises hopes of 100 million doses next year

Australian scientists hope to produce up to 100 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of next year as Queensland researchers sign a major partnership with pharmaceutical giant CSL, which...

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Damian Purcell retweeted
medRxiv@medrxivpreprint3 Jun 2020
Evaluation of serological tests for SARS-CoV-2: Implications for serology testing in a low-prevalence setting medrxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #medRxiv
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GVN Centers @LeuvenU and @TheDohertyInst tested a disinfectant that has long-lasting activity far superior to conventional decontamination agents against viruses, notably SARS-CoV-2: tinyurl.com/yaxcmx7d #coronavirus #COVID19
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Next week on @4Corners we investigate the efforts to create a COVID-19 vaccine and the battle to ensure that if scientists are successful, the vaccine doesn’t just go to the highest bidder
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Dr Julie McAuley is a senior research officer and helps manage one of the High Containment (PC3) Labs that has recently become dedicated to #COVID19 research. Dr McAuley is featured in this edition of Meet the Scientist bit.ly/3edzI7W @unimelb @UniMelbMDHS @TheRMH
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