Professor who tweeted the coronavirus genome, paving the way for new vaccines, scoops major Australian science award
- Written by Cathy Foley, Australia's Chief Scientist, Office of the Chief Scientist

The role played by University of Sydney Professor Edward Holmes in the COVID pandemic is already the stuff of legend. His decision to tweet the genome of SARS-CoV-2 on January 11 2020, making the data freely available to everyone, sparked urgent work in labs around the world to develop a test and a vaccine.
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