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NSW spearheads key COVID-19 vaccine research
A leading group of NSW experts will pioneer Australia-first research to inform vaccine policy in the state and beyond.
The Vaccine, Infection and Immunology (VIIM) Collaborative Research Group will receive more than $4.5 million in funding from the NSW Government over three years to study the clinical and immunological responses to COVID-19 vaccines in NSW recipients.
VIIM brings together the leading vaccine, infection and immunology researchers and practitioners in NSW. It incorporates expertise from two universities, four medical research institutes, the state-wide pathology service, adult and paediatric health services, and the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance.
Because NSW has not been heavily exposed to the virus, the state is in a unique opportunity to study COVID-19 vaccines, taking on the “trickiest questions”, such as how it compares with immunity from infection and whether boosters are needed.
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The University of Sydney today officially opened its first university-hospital space across multiple hospital levels, which includes ‘hybrid flexible’ teaching spaces for in-person and remote learning with world-class audio-visual systems, in ‘Block K’ of Westmead’s new Central Acute Services Building.
In addition to the dedicated University spaces, the 14-storey building includes two new emergency departments (one for adults and one for children), digital operating theatres and more than 300 patient rooms. It is a partnership between the University of Sydney and government collaborators the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Western Sydney Local Health District and Health Infrastructure.
The Minister for Skills and Tertiary Education and Member for Parramatta, the Hon. Dr Geoff Lee, and Western Sydney Local Health District chair Richard Alcock AO joined the University of Sydney Chancellor Belinda Hutchinson AC and Vice-Chancellor and Principal Professor Stephen
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Cardiovascular nurse researcher caring for our hearts this Heart Week
For individuals living with atrial fibrillation or ‘AF’, the irregular beating of their hearts can cause great discomfort: fatigue, breathlessness, palpitations, racing heartbeats. AF is the most common heart rhythm disorder and happens when the upper valves beat out of order from the lower valves, causing a range of frightening and uncomfortable symptoms.
Dr Caleb Ferguson is an atrial fibrillation nurse researcher affiliated with the new Westmead Innovation Quarter and a Senior Research Fellow, NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellow, and Heart Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow from the Western Sydney Nursing and Midwifery Research Centre (Western Sydney University School of Nursing and Midwifery and Western Sydney Local Health District) and the Translational Health Research Institute (THRI), and MARCS Institute for Brain Behaviour and Development.