A more effective therapy has emerged for preventing hormone-sensitive breast cancers returning in younger women. A global study, published overnight in the New England Journal of Medicine, has shown that…
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The Institute has more than 850 researchers who are working to understand, prevent and treat diseases including: cancers such as breast, blood and bowel cancers; immune disorders such as diabetes, coeliac disease and multiple sclerosis; and infectious diseases including malaria, hepatitis B and HIV.
Our affiliation with The Royal Melbourne Hospital links research outcomes with clinical practice to accelerate discoveries for health and disease. We offer postgraduate training as the Department of Medical Biology of The University of Melbourne.
More than 30 million people worldwide have been helped by discoveries made at the Institute and more than 100 national and international clinical trials are underway that originate from Institute research. This include trials of vaccines and therapies for type 1 diabetes, coeliac disease and malaria; trials of new anti-inflammatory agents for arthritis and other immune disorders; and trials of a new class of anti-cancer drugs, called BH3-mimetics, for treating patients with leukaemia and other cancers.
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Many readers will know the name Mark Willacy, an Australian journalist who was the ABC’s North Asian correspondent for five years. On March 11, 2011, he would witness events that would redefine Japan as…
When the freshly-minted Prime Minister Tony Abbott declined for the first time since 1931 to appoint a science minister as part of his Cabinet in September last year, he did so having made an election…
The federal government has announced a $20 billion medical research future fund, which is expected to distribute $1 billion to research by 2022-23, doubling its direct medical research funding. The announcement…
Most researchers would agree with the Commission of Audit’s finding that “given overall budget constraints, it is important to take a strategic, whole-of-government approach to where Australia’s research…
Rapid technological advances mean it’s faster and cheaper than ever to read a person’s entire genetic code, known as the genome. Genomic sequencing has two potential applications in health: the care of…
Sydney’s Garvan Institute is this week promoting its acquisition of an Illumina machine which it says can sequence the whole human genome for $1,000. The institute hopes genomic sequencing will become…
The Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science recognise excellence in science and science teaching. This year, we asked three prizewinners to reflect on their work and factors that influenced their careers…
Australian mathematician and statistician Terry Speed has been awarded the 2013 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science for giving biologists the statistical tools needed to fight cancer, and for a lifetime…
A glass ceiling remains in place for female medical research scientists in Australia. Although approximately 50% of PhD students and postdoctoral scientists are female, males run the majority of research…
A team of international researchers has identified a key pathway in some aggressive ovarian tumours that could be targeted with medications currently used to treat type 2 diabetes. The study, led by Dr…
Use of the anti-cancer drug Tamoxifen is associated with a dramatically reduced risk of developing a second breast tumour among women with a high risk gene mutation who have experienced breast cancer already…
International health officials recently warned of a “catastrophic threat” to human health, given one of the last remaining antibiotics capable of defeating superbugs – carbapenem antibiotics – is succumbing…
Science is knowledge gained from reproducible observations or experiments. Yet in a commentary in Nature in May last year, researchers from biotechnology company Amgen reported that the findings in 90…
Combining a special anti-cancer compound with conventional cancer-fighting drugs can slow down the growth of the most common form of breast cancer and can even cause some tumours to disappear completely…
Here is the full text of a speech given by the President of the Australian Academy of Science, Professor Suzanne Cory, to the National Press Club. Thank you Laurie. Distinguished guests, friends, colleagues…
Australia must boost its research and development investment to at least the level of other OECD and Asian competitors, the chief of the Australian Academy of Science said today, warning that inaction…
MATHS AND SCIENCE EDUCATION: We’ve asked our authors about the state of maths and science education in Australia and its future direction. In this instalment, Marguerite Evans-Galea, Darren Saunders, and…
Angelina Jolie’s recent announcement about her double mastectomy likely caused many women to think about their own chance of developing breast cancer. But before you rush off to have a bunch of possibly…
Actress Angelina Jolie’s op-ed in the New York Times explained that she opted to have a double mastectomy because she carries the hereditary BRCA1 gene, which she says increases her risk of breast cancer…
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Laboratory Head, Immunology Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
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Executive Director, Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
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Medical Researcher, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
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Head, Chemical Biology Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
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Laboratory Head, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
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Senior Resarch Officer, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
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Researcher, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
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Masters of Research Student, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
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Head, Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
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PhD Student, Epigenetics and Development Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
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Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
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Division Head, Population Health and Immunity, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
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Senior Research Officer, Blood Cells and Blood Cancer Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
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Laboratory Head, Immunology Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
