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The Walter And Eliza Hall
Institute of Medical Research
Melbourne, Australia
 
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August 22, 2008.
    

The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) was founded in 1915 as a benevolence of the perpetual charitable Walter and Eliza Hall Trust.
"...an Institute as the Southern Hemisphere has never known ...[which] shall above all things devote itself to medical research in a broad and comprehensive spirit"
"... the birthplace of discoveries rendering signal service to mankind in the prevention and removal of disease and the mitigation of suffering"
[Quotes from documents of Sir Harry Allen, Dean of Medicine, University of Melbourne, 1915]



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About WEHI ...
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, located in Parkville, just north of Melbourne's CBD, is one of the world's leading medical research centres. The work of the Institute covers cancer, genetics, malaria, autoimmune diseases, medicinal chemistry, drug discovery and translational research taking scientific discoveries from the laboratory to the clinic. Over many decades, the Institute's advances and discoveries have led to significant benefits for patients around the world. The WEHI Biotechnology Centre, located in the La Trobe University R&D Park, provides laboratories for the commercial incubation of the Institute's discoveries, including the establishment of start-up biotechnology companies.




Employment Opportunities

21/08/2008

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Employment Opportunity - Research Technician - Immunology Division

20/08/2008

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Employment Opportunity - Administrative Officer (Scientific)

 7/08/2008

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Employment Opportunity - Post-doctoral Scientist - Medicinal Chemistry

Professor Peter Colman
Wins Victoria Prize

Professor Peter Colman (centre with Professor Suzanne Cory, WEHI Director left, and Mr Gavin Jennings, Victorian Government Minister for Innovation right) has won Victoria's most coveted science award, the Victoria Prize, and Dr Ian Majewski has been awarded a prestigious Victoria Fellowship. Both prizes were presented by the Governor of Victoria, Professor David de Kretser AC, during a celebratory event at Government House on 13 August 2008.[More ...]

WEHI Discovery Tours 2008

The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute would like to extend a very warm welcome to you to visit us and learn more about our research. Regular tours include an opportunity to visit our laboratories and meet some of our staff and researchers. Each tour will focus on different areas of our research including cancer, autoimmune diseases, malaria and immunology. Tour dates this year are 29 July and 23 October and if you would like further details please contact Kristine Ash on 9345 2912. [More ...]

WEHI's Drs Lindeman and Visvader recognised for outstanding breast cancer research

Drs Jane Visvader and Geoff Lindeman, researchers at Melbourne's Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI) and the Royal Melbourne Hospital, have been presented with the GlaxoSmithKline Award for Research Excellence for their outstanding contribution to breast cancer research. [More ...]


Would you like to do your Honours or PhD
at one of the world's
leading research Institutes?

The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
OPEN DAY
for Prospective
Honours and PhD Students

Monday 1 September
&
Tuesday 2 September 2008
3.45pm to 6.00pm
Program:
  • Presentations by scientists and students.
  • Tours of WEHI.
  • Discussion of research projects with
           scientists.
  • Meeting with current WEHI students.
  • Complimentary refreshments.
  • Enquiries: Kelly Rodger: openday@wehi.edu.au
    Prospective students can register
    and find more details here.
    Get an Open Day poster here.

    Latest News

    13/08/2008

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    Top Victorian honours for two WEHI scientists

     9/07/2008

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    Identifying and disrupting key elements of malaria’s “sticky sack” adhesion strategy

     2/07/2008

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    MS drug development agreement based on WEHI’s medicinal chemistry

     4/06/2008

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    Insights into cancer earn Premier’s Award Commendation

    26/05/2008

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    Dual functions of gene revealed, for better and for worse

     9/05/2008

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    Key step in the “puncture” mechanism of cell death revealed

    WEHI's Drew Berry
    Launches Apoptosis Animation

    WEHI's BAFTA and Emmy Award winning biomedical animator Drew Berry's paper, "Molecular Animation of Cell Death Mediated by the Fas Pathway" is in the April 2007 issue of Science. Web (35MB) and iPod (28MB) versions of the animation described in that paper are available.
         
    "Mastery of Disease Through Discovery"

    Affiliated with The University of Melbourne and The Royal Melbourne Hospital