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Virus ‘paperclip’ technology a boon for vaccine development

Virus ‘paperclip’ technology a boon for vaccine development

Considered the most lucrative Australian university research commercialisation agreement ever negotiated, the 2025 deal for exclusive rights to the University of Queensland’s virus clamp technology has huge potential for vaccine development. Pharmaceutical giant Sanofi bought the university’s spin-off company Vicebio, with the rights to the clamp technology, for US$1.15 billion (A$1.6 billion) up-front and potential on-going payments of …read more

Virtual school takes lessons to war-torn and remote regions

Virtual school takes lessons to war-torn and remote regions

Within weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, student teachers from the Monash Virtual School were offering online lessons to Ukrainian school-students studying in bomb shelters and displaced homes. The school helps to fill educational gaps – offering free tuition by the university’s student teachers and academics and providing a way for tens of thousands of …read more