by Sue Dunlevy Premium Content Subscriber only At least three other Australian teams are working on vaccines. Griffith University's Professor Bernd Rehm currently has three COVID-19 vaccine candidates being trialled on hamsters in the US with results expected by late January 2021. "I think it's very important to look at the composition of the materials, how they are made, how they can be made at large scale, how cost effectively they can be produced and how stable they are," he told News Corp. Griffith Universityâs Professor Bernd Rehm currently has three COVID-19 vaccine candidates being trialled on hamsters in the US. Picture: AAP