Announcement of ECR collaborative grant funding

Congratulations to the two teams of early-mid career researchers who have been awarded start-up grants for collaborative research projects in infectious diseases and related disciplines The one-year grants are designed to promote development of early-mid career researcher networks and foster collaboration between research groups within CREID.
The funded projects are:
Genomics guided surveillance of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine failure in Australian children
Senior Investigators:
Rebecca Rocket (Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology ā Public Health, Sydney)
Christopher Blyth (University of Western Australia, Perth)
Irani Rathnayake (Queensland Department of Health)
āMeta-transcriptomicā sequencing to enhance pathogen genomics
Senior Investigators:
John-Sebastian Eden (University of Sydney)
Jason Kwong (University of Melbourne)
Verlaine Timms (Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology ā Public Health, Sydney)
Philip Britton (Westmead Children's Hospital)