South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute
The South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) is an Australian not-for-profit research organization based in 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-19.1) The study, labelled theBRACE Trial, was run by Nigel Curtis at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI).
Additional funding included $700,000 from 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
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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