Monash University Houses New Moderna Vaccine Manufacturing Facility

While marking a significant achievement in promoting medical research and advancing mRNA vaccine accessibility, Moderna has launched a new vaccine manufacturing facility at Monash University.

Study in Australia: Monash University has established a new Moderna vaccine manufacturing facility at its Clayton campus in southeast Melbourne. The new facility will promote medical research and will also advance the mRNA vaccine accessibility.

Professor Sharon Pickering, Vice-Chancellor and President of Monash University commented, “Monash University is a leader in the development of mRNA and RNA therapeutics and is at the heart of the thriving mRNA innovation ecosystem established around our Clayton campus that now includes Moderna’s new vaccine manufacturing facility."

“The opening of the Moderna Technology Centre will accelerate Monash’s ground-breaking work toward the rapid development of life-saving vaccines and therapeutic treatments for infectious diseases and cancers,” Professor Pickering said.

Moderna Manufacturing Facility At Monash Campus: Details

During the endemic periods, the manufacturing facility will produce vaccines for influenza, respiratory syncytial virus, and Covid-19 and during the pandemic, the facility has the capacity to produce up to 100 million vaccine doses each year.

Under the partnership between Monash and Moderna, the Monash-Moderna Quantitative Pharmacology Accelerator was launched to accelerate mRNA medicines development using mathematical computer models. Monash has also partnered with the Victorian government to set up the Monash Centre for Advanced mRNA Medicines Manufacturing and Workforce Training to train and educate specialists in mRNA technology and manufacturing.

Monash University Gets Research Centre To Tackle Violence Against Women

The ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW) has been established in the university through an investment of $35 million. The Centre will address all forms of violence against women in the Indo-Pacific and Australia.

The Centre will have domestic and international partners and 13 Chief Investigators from 6 universities in Australia.

Professor Jacqui True the CEVAW Director said, “Systems and structures are failing women. But we don’t have the knowledge base to inform policymakers and advocates who can drive the systems-change to eliminate violence against women. CEVAW will examine the structural drivers that cause and compound violence against women, and will pioneer new, evidence-based approaches to radically improve policy and practice across Australia and the Indo-Pacific.”

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