THE GO8 AND CHINA WORKING TOGETHER; STRONG AND SUCCESSFUL RESEARCH PARTNERS
One of Australia’s most well-known medical breakthroughs, the cervical cancer vaccine Cervarix, has been approved by the China Food and Drug Administration and has been distributed through GlaxoSmith Kline China since early 2017. The ground-breaking innovation, along with the Gardasil vaccine, is the result of decades of work by the University of Queensland Professor Ian Frazer and the late Chinese virologist Dr Zhou Jian. The pair’s vision to protect women against cervical cancer has resulted in more than 205 million doses of the Cervarix and Gardasil vaccines distributed in 130 countries, reducing the number of deaths by cervical cancer by around 250,000 each year.