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PANDEMIC HEALTH ANNOUNCEMENT MELBOURNE

Geoffrey Cumming and his wife Anna at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity in Melbourne Source: AAP / DAVID CROSLING/AAPIMAGE

A new global pandemic therapeutics centre is to be established in Melbourne, financed by a record donation from Canadian and New Zealand philanthropist Geoffrey Cumming.


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By Abby Dinham

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A new global pandemic therapeutics centre is to be established in Melbourne, financed by a record donation from Canadian and New Zealand philanthropist Geoffrey Cumming.



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