How NCRIS infrastructure helped UQ’s vaccine platform – a billion-dollar success
16 December 2025 A landmark deal has placed Australian vaccine innovation on the world stage, with leading healthcare company Sanofi completing the acquisition of Vicebio Molecular Clamp inventors Prof Keith Chappell, Prof Daniel Watterson and Em Prof Paul Young (Photo credit: The University of Queensland ) Vicebio was formed in 2019 to advance The University […]
NCRIS Turbo-Charges New mRNA Drugs
Therapeutics that use mRNA are a growing area of development and work by introducing the ‘’message” to make a therapeutic protein into the patient’s body, instead of the protein itself. This approach can revolutionise combatting many kinds of cancers, and for treating genetic and infectious diseases. Conventional strategies deliver mRNA drugs to tissues inside lipid […]