====== South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute ======

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The **South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI)** is an Australian not-for-profit research organization based in [[australia:south_australia:Adelaide]], [[Australia]].

===== History =====

==== COVID-19 ====

On May 5, 2020, SAHMRI announced it had received a $10 million grant from the [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]] to fund a study to test if a [[Bacillus Calmette-Guerin]] (BCG) vaccine would work against [[COVID-19]].((//Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation joins SAHMRI and others to expand international COVID-19 trial.// (2020, May 5). SAHMRI. https://web.archive.org/web/20221209084614/https://sahmri.org.au/news/bill-melinda-gates-foundation-joins-sahmri-and-others-to-expand-international-covid-19-trial)) The study, labelled the[[BRACE Trial]], was run by [[Nigel Curtis]] at the [[Murdoch Children’s Research Institute]] (MCRI).

Additional funding included $700,000 from [[Sarah Murdoch|Sarah]] and [[Lachlan Murdoch]], $400,000 from the [[Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation]] (RCHF), $1.5 million from the [[Minderoo Foundation]] and $200,000 from the [[Government of South Australia]] through [[SA Health]].

===== External links =====

  * [[https://sahmri.org.au|Website]]