@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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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.

afr.com
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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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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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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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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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.@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

pursuit.unimelb.edu.au
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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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Some of our team featured in this great article by @frenchricky in The Weekend Aust mag. Looks at the timeline of our response to COVID-19 theaustralian.com.au/weekend… @ProfPCDoherty @ProfSharonLewin
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How can self-isolation help us control the spread of COVID-19? #COVID19 #COVID19au @TheDohertyInst
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#AVS10 invited speaker Prof Damian Purcell from ⁦@TheDohertyInst⁩ presenting on novel aspects of the Australian HTLV-1c strains in our inaugural Indigenous Virology Session proudly sponsored by @BurnetInstitute
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Today is #WorldHTLVDay: In this blog post Prof Graham Taylor unravels 30 years of misconceptions about this cancer-causing virus #HTLV1 @HTLVnet ow.ly/JTlN30myMml
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#WorldHTLVDay is tomorrow!
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Damian Purcell retweeted
The Project
@theprojecttv15 Mar 2019
“You’ll have to forgive me, these won’t be my best words...” On this heartbreaking day, Waleed reflects and calls for unity. #TheProjectTV

Waleed on the Christchurch Terrorist Attacks

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Words aren't enough to say how proud we are of our leader, Doherty Institute Director @ProfSharonLewin appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in today's #AustraliaDayHonours bit.ly/2sJFCrO @TheRMH @UniMelbMDHS Call media team 0412 103 306 for interviews
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Please share #WorldHTLVDay for the 20 million people infected with #HTLV, most of them poor and #women
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