Australia has experienced an intense surge in severe #StrepA cases, with #infection rates tripling compared with pre-pandemic levels. Murdoch Children’s Dr Yara Abo spoke to News Corp about the unseasonal spike in cases | The Infection Flagship, MCRI, Melbourne ✍️Sue Dunlevy Herald Sun

Does microbe exposure in early life really prevent allergies? A Science Immunology paper from a team at @KarolinskaInst brings the hygiene hypothesis into question. 🧼 JunjieMa Egon Urgard @JonatCoquet Stephan P. Rosshart Susanne Nylen 📑 tinyurl.com/35s6sfwj 💬 tinyurl.com/3vss7eeh

A big congratulations to Senior Research Officer Dr Simon Foster who has been awarded the prestigious five-year 2023 Bellberry-Viertel Fellowship for his research into new ways to treat and repair heart damage.

I am delighted to share that I've been awarded a Bellberry-Viertel Senior Medical Research Fellowship to advance our research to develop therapies targeting cardiac fibrosis & heart failure. I am very excited to to see how far we can take this program in the next 5 years!

Congratulations to Jennifer Juno who has been awarded a prestigious Viertel Senior Medical Research Fellowship of $1.3 million over 5 years, to further research into vaccine efficacy against infectious diseases. doherty.edu.au/news-events/ne… UniMelb MDHS The Royal Melbourne Hospital

Harnessing unconventional T cells in the fight against disease, including TB: Congratulations Daniel Pellicci Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) on receiving a Viertel Fellowhip. We worked with Daniel at Doherty Institute UniMelb MDHS when he was awarded a CSL Fellowship: cslfellowships.com.au/fellows-archiv…

Congrats to MCRI's Professor Paul Lockhart, A/Profs David Godler, Shireen Lamande and Daniel Pellicci - who have received NHMRC Ideas grants to find new treatments for #childhood diseases | PWRFA Prader-Willi Research Shireen Lamande Read more: mcri.edu.au/news/awards/id…

Wishing all our colleagues a safe and wonderful holiday season around the world 🎄🎆🎊 . Looking forward to the field coming together again not far into the new year! Program & accom updates in progress for all delegates 👇 and for late birds - registration is still open too!

Congrats to #MCRI Prof Andrew Steer who has received the Gustav Nossal Medal from the Australian Academy of Science for his outstanding contribution to the global health field. ⬇️ #MCRIResearch #StrepA #Scabies #InfectiousDisease mcri.edu.au/news/awards/gu…

Having a great time at MCRI & VCGS Town Hall 2024 Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) Victorian Clinical Genetics Services (VCGS) The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne Daniel Pellicci #science #sciencegathering #kidshealth #immunology #sciencelovers #BrightFuture

It was great to host undergraduate students for Discovery Tour at Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne #DayofImmunology. Today we learned more about #BCGvaccine #RSVinfection #stemcells #allery #epigenetics #heart-transplantation. Looking forward to having a brighter future for kids.

Our newest preprint is online! Upsurge of iGAS in the Netherlands in 2022/2023 dominated by emm1, particularly M1UK. Analysis of over 350 carriage isolates pre/post pandemic show this is not a reflection of increased carriage rates or carriage of emm1. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Don't forget to register for our upcoming Winter Seminar as we hear from Prof Ruth Ganss UWA Research Harry Perkins Institute about tumour immunology and anti-cancer immunotherapy. 📅16th Aug, 3.45pm 📍College Lawn Hotel FREE Attendance for ASI members- register👇immunology.org.au/events/2024-AS…

ASI VIC/TAS Winter seminar at the College Lawn Hotel, Prahran. Our guest speaker is Professor Ruth Ganss from the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research. Thanks to Miltenyi for sponsoring our event. Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology Miltenyi Biotec Immunology Group of Victoria