Canadian businessman Geoff Cumming lives in Melbourne. The donation will go toward research to fight future pandemics
The donation to Melbourne’s The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, also known as the Doherty Institute, will go toward creating the Cumming Global Center for Pandemic Therapeutics.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails.
“We’re trying to provide protection for Australia, for the world,” Cumming, a Melbourne resident, told reporters. “We will have more pandemics.” Doherty Institute director Sharon Lewin said her institute planned to raise AU$1.5 billion over the next decade. The Victoria state government has committed AU$75 million to the project.During the first year of the pandemic, AU$137 billion was publicly invested globally in vaccines compared to just AU$7 billion in therapeutics.
“We’re really looking at developing the technologies for the future, not the technologies we currently have,” Lewin told Australian Broadcasting Corp. For more health news and content around diseases, conditions, wellness, healthy living, drugs, treatments and more, head to
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