#Health and Wellbeing

Malaria Vaccine (1998)

Between two and three million people are killed each year by malaria. A vaccine for this deadly disease has been developed and is now in its trial stage.

Skin Polarprobe unit for identifying harmful skin lesions.

Spot check (1997)

Software to help doctors correctly diagnose melanoma. Soaking up the sun and getting a tan, there's nothing like it. And […]

CSIRO Medals 1997 – Chairman’s Medal – The IBDV Team

hmed Azad, Dr Kevin Fahey and Dr Colin Ward and colleagues (CSIRO Molecular Science, CSIRO Animal Health). For their outstanding contributions to our knowledge of the structure and biology of the Birnaviridae family of double-stranded RNA viruses, leading to the development of a prototype recombinant vaccine against infectious bursal disease of poultry.

Peter Hudson and colleague inspect a DNA autoradiogram.

Magic bullets (1996)

CSIRO scientists are working on an antibody to combat cancers and viruses.

CSIRO Medals 1995 – Chairman’s Medal – Dr Keith Murray and the AAHL Team

Keith Murray and colleagues (CSIRO Animal Health). For the discovery of a previously unknown equine morbillivirus: a new disease found in horses which can also affect humans.

CSIRO Medals 1994 – Chairman’s Medal – Dr Dharma Shukla and Dr Colin Ward

Dharma Shukla and Dr Colin Ward (CSIRO Biomolecular Engineering). For their work on the structure, variation and taxonomy of the […]

Dr Tom Pressley conducting clothing flammability testing.

“I Can Never Resist That Challenge” (1980)

This film is essentially a profile of Dr Tom Pressley whose research in the field of textiles makes an excellent case study of how an applied scientist operates.

Flammability tests being conducted on Fire-Resistant Experimental Dummy, FRED.

I.S.O. Inter-laboratory apparel flammability trials (1977)

A record of flammability trials carried out by the CSIRO Division of Protein Chemistry in collaboration with the Standards Association of Australia.