An evening with Anders Nordström
14 May 2024
Watch the recording of former Swedish Global Health Ambassador Anders Nordström delivering a key-note speech to a captive audience at the Doherty Institute Auditorium on Friday 26 April.
AIID Facility Update – early and enabling works continuing
22 April 2024
Early and enabling works have continued on the AIID building site through March and April ahead of building demolition.
Sustainability in action on AIID early works
22 April 2024
Kane Constructions has engaged Indigenous owned and run company Project Net Zero to strip furniture and fittings from the existing buildings on the AIID site.
AIID Event, 26 April: An Evening with Anders Nordström
27 March 2024
The Australian Institute for Infectious Disease (AIID) extends an open invite to a special evening with former Swedish Ambassador for Global Health, Anders Nordstörm on Friday April 26, 5:30-7pm at the Doherty Institute Auditorium.
Doherty Institute launches purpose-built human challenge trials facility
25 March 2024
Australia’s first clinical trial facility specifically commissioned to deliver human challenge trials, Doherty Clinical Trials Ltd, was launched today in East Melbourne.
Geoffrey Cumming recognised as Fellow of the University of Melbourne
23 March 2024
In August 2022, Mr Cumming and his wife, Anna, gifted $250 million to the Doherty Institute at the University of Melbourne to establish the Cumming Global Centre for Pandemic Therapeutics within the Australian Institute for Infectious Disease.
Leading the way on International Women’s Day
8 March 2024
The University of Melbourne team delivering the AIID is determined to address gender inequality in the construction industry through the economic influence of the tendering process.
AIID announces early works contractor
7 March 2024
The Australian Institute for Infectious Disease (AIID) is thrilled to appoint Kane Constructions as the enabling and early works contractor in the development of its state-of-the-art research facility.
AIID facility update – building strip-out underway
28 February 2024
All buildings on the AIID site are now vacant and enabling works are continuing this month. The strip-out of existing buildings prior to demolition is well-underway.
Doherty Institute cracks 80-year Buruli ulcer mystery
25 January 2024
In a major breakthrough, researchers led by University of Melbourne’s Professor Tim Stinear, Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Mycobacterium ulcerans at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute), have solved the 80-year mystery surrounding the spread of Buruli ulcer.