Professor Julie Bines from Murdoch Children's Research Institute is doing some inspiring work, developing the RV3-BB rotavirus vaccine. "Funding for this research from the very early days has become very critical and NHMRC has provided much of that critical funding through the course of this project". Listen to Professor Bines' story below.
Video transcript
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Professor Julie Bines: The aim of our research is to identify a way to prevent rotavirus, gastroenteritis from birth in children in Australia and around the world.
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It kills about 250,000 children each year under five, that’s about 600 babies per day,
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many of those in the developing countries of the world, the poorest of the poor.
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So rotavirus was discovered back in the 1970s in children presenting to the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne.
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Funding for this research from the very early days has been very critical and the NHMRC has provided much of that really critical funding through the course of this project.
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We’ve just published a major trial in Indonesia which showed that the vaccine was very effective in where it’s needed most. This is a real game changer.
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I feel tremendous satisfaction that we’ve been able to develop this legacy from discovery, now through to prevention with the help and support of the NHMRC.
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I think it’s a terrific contribution from Australia to global child health.
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