COVID-19

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7 May 2024

Exciting breakthrough offers hope for Long COVID patients

Researchers from Griffith University’s National Centre for Neuroimmunology and Emerging Diseases (NCNED) have made a groundbreaking discovery that could bring...

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15 March 2024

Health outcomes for Long COVID are comparable with ME/CFS

People with Long COVID in Australia have poor health outcomes that are comparable with another emerging disease known as myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).

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26 July 2023
SARS-CoV-2— the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the U.S. Virus particles are shown emerging from the surface of cells cultured in a lab. The spikes on the outer edge of the virus particles give coronaviruses their name, crown-like. Credit: NIAID-RML

Griffith University and Gene Company partner to create exciting RNA-based COVID anti-viral

Griffith University has entered into a $135 million commercial partnership with Gene Company o further develop a new drug treatment for SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19.

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13 June 2023

Top Griffith scientists head to Canberra to make case for thousands with ME/CFS

Calls for new national clinical guidelines to improve the care of hundreds of thousands of Australians with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), and potentially thousands more with Long Covid.

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19 April 2023

Largest medical research grant to help ME/CFS and Long COVID research

Griffith University’s research into the potential overlap between Long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) has received a major boost thanks to a $6.4 million grant from the Stafford Fox Medical Research Foundation.

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17 March 2023
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16 March 2023
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14 March 2023

World’s strongest MRI investigates COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue impacts on the brain

In a world-first, Griffith University researchers have used an ultra-high field MRI (7 Tesla) to investigate how COVID-19 and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) mirror the same effects on the brain structure.

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9 February 2023
Dr Chester Cao, Dr Sarah D’Arcy, Dr Victoria Allan and Dr Steve Ahn,

Team takes out medical prize for IUD research

Dr Sarah D’Arcy, Dr Chester Cao, Dr Steve Ahn, and Dr Victoria Allan along with their supervisor Associate Professor Alireza Ahmadvand investigated how the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns affected rates of long-acting reversible contraception utilisation.

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14 November 2022
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