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Record donation to boost Australia's pandemic preparedness

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

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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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