Dr Marios Koutsakos

Research Officer, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

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The science behind the search for a COVID-19 vaccine

Unless a new treatment is discovered, developing a vaccine is crucial to controlling COVID-19. In this special report, our experts explain the complex challenge of creating, testing and distributing a potential vaccine to end the coronavirus

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Our ‘killer’ cells’ role in life-long flu vaccine

Killer immune cells that can fight all strains of influenza virus provide the potential for a universal, one-shot flu vaccine

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But I got my flu shot? Why the flu vaccine works for some and not others

New research has discovered why some people aren’t immune to the flu even after they’ve had the vaccination