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Encyclopedia > Burnet Institute

The Burnet Institute is Australia's largest communicable diseases research institute. It was founded in Melbourne in 1986 and named after Australian Nobel laurate Frank Macfarlane Burnet. Sir Frank MacFarlane Burnet (born September 3, 1899 in Traralgon, Victoria; died August 31, 1985) was an Australian biologist. ...


The institute in one of 12 Collaborating Centres approved by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and the only medical research institute that recieves funds from AusAID. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS, or UNAIDS, is the main advocate for accelerated, comprehensive and coordinated global action on the HIV epidemic. ... The Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) is the Australian organisation responsible for delivering most non-military foreign aid. ...

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