May 2023
Australian garlic kills COVID-19, says Doherty Institute
The variety demonstrates up to 99.9 per cent efficacy against the coronavirus and common flu, raising hopes of increased exports.
- Patrick Durkin
March 2022
Like to travel? You’ll hate this professor’s biggest lesson from the pandemic
Nobel laureate Peter Doherty says the halting of international flights should happen sooner and be applied more broadly during the next pandemic.
- Tom Burton
December 2021
The 10 most memorable Lunches with the AFR in 2021
After a year of Zoom lunches, 2021’s Lunch with the AFR was able to return to an in-person affair. And this year’s subjects didn’t hold back on some of the biggest issues.
August 2021
- Analysis
- Coronavirus pandemic
ANU professor’s prediction of 29,000 deaths not based on national plan
The university’s predictions of very high death rates assumes public health measures to stop COVID-19 circulating will stop - which neither the Doherty modelling recommended nor governments plan to do.
- Aaron Patrick
AstraZeneca jab on par with Pfizer at preventing serious illness
The federal government’s chief infectious disease modeller says more people over 40 should get the Oxford University-developed vaccine.
- Tom McIlroy and Andrew Tillett
November 2020
AstraZeneca's partial data release 'clumsy'
Doherty Institute's head of vaccine and immunisation research said despite the less than optimal data delivery, the world still has a third COVID-19 vaccine which clearly works.
- Carrie LaFrenz and Andrew Tillett
September 2020
Why climate change has the potential to cause more pandemics
Nobel prize winner Peter Doherty has supported calls from senior government advisers for more action to stop the spread of animal-borne diseases.
- Tom McIlroy
July 2020
COVID-19 survivors urged to donate blood for trials
Men recovering from COVID-19 are being urgently sought to donate their antibodies for two treatment trials to help acute hospitalised patients.
- Tom Burton
- Exclusive
- Coronavirus pandemic
NSW perilous as modelling suggests Victoria slowly flattening curve
NSW is at a perilous risk of a breakout, as new modelling shows Australia could have months of closed borders as states seek to protect themselves from community transmission.
- Tom Burton
- Analysis
- Coronavirus pandemic
Melbourne's health leaders fight their own backyard outbreak
The storied medical researchers who designed the national COVID-19 response find themselves battling the virus in their own suburbs.
- Tom Burton
May 2020
Nobel Prize winner Peter Doherty reveals his pandemic page-turners
When COVID-19 hit, books about living through perilous times captivated the medical researcher and author.
- Luke Slattery
UQ in race for vaccine as death toll hits 100
There are more than 100 vaccine candidates registered with the World Health Organisation, which points to seven or eight "top candidates" that have already advanced to human trials.
- Patrick Durkin and Ronald Mizen
'I'm 79, I won the Nobel Prize and I don't give a s---'
Outspoken immunologist Peter Doherty believes scientists could have a coronavirus vaccine ready by September.
- Patrick Durkin
April 2020
Anti-parasitic drug kills the coronavirus: Monash-led study
The scientists are now seeking funding for pre-clinical testing and clinical trials to find out if there is a safe dose that kills the coronavirus in humans.
- Ben Potter