PhD Scholarship in 'Understanding COVID-19 and improving our immune response to the vaccines'

This PhD scholarship provides an opportunity to work with immunologists, bioinformaticians and clinical trials to better understand the effects and long-term complications of COVID-19 on the immune system, or the response to COVID-19 vaccines in different populations such as pregnant people and elderly individuals. The Cancer, Ageing and Vaccines Laboratory offers four distinct PhD project topics, all utilizing clinical samples and working with clinical collaborators across Australia. Projects include investigating healthcare workers and Long COVID-19, COVID-19 and the development of autoimmunity, improving vaccine immunity to COVID-19 through multi-institutional large scale human trials, and examining the impact of PEG on vaccine efficacy and adverse reactivity in mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.