The Walter and Eliza Hall Institue of Medical Research is located in Parkville, Melbourne. It is one of Australia's foremost medical research institutes. Melbourne is the capital and largest city of the state of Victoria, and the second largest city in Australia, with a population of 3,600,650 in the Melbourne metropolitan area (June 2004) and 61,670 in the City of Melbourne (which covers only the central city area). ... See drugs, medication, and pharmacology for substances that are used to treat patients. ... Research is an active, diligent and systematic process of inquiry in order to discover, interpret or revise facts, events, behaviours, or theories, or to make practical applications with the help of such facts, laws or theories. ... An institute is a permanent organizational body created for a certain purpose. ...

History

In 1915, the institute founded using funds from a trust established by the Hall family. It was Australia’s first medical research institute and adopted a crest bearing the Latin inscription, Fiat Lux – Let there be light. 1915 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...

Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet was Institute director 1944-1965, he brought the institues to international prominence for virological research, especially influenza, and then for immunology. Such was the nature of Sir Macfarlane’s achievement that he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1960. Sir Frank MacFarlane Burnet (September 3, 1899–August 31, 1985) was an Australian biologist. ... Negatively stained flu virions. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to the present day. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Sir Gustav Nossal, was Institute director 1965–1996. Under his stewardship the Institue grew in size and scope, the Institutes scientists making important discoveries in control if immune system responses, cell cycle regulation and malaria. Gustav Joseph Victor Nossal (born June 4, 1931 in Vienna, Austria) is a distinguished research scientist. ... The cell cycle, or cell division cycle, is the cycle of events in a eukaryotic cell from one cell division to the next. ... Red blood cell infected with Malaria (Italian: bad air; formerly called ague or marsh fever in English) is an infectious disease which in humans causes about 350-500 million infections and approxomately 1. ...

Current research

The Institute has been lead by Professor Suzanne Cory since 1996. Currently the work of the Institute is centred on cancer, the immune system, autoimmune diseases – such as diabetes, multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis – malaria, neural development, genetics and drug discovery. When normal cells are damaged or old they undergo apoptosis; cancer cells, however, avoid apoptosis. ... The immune system is the organ system that protects an organism from outside biological influences. ... Autoimmune diseases arise from an overactive immune response of the body against substances and tissues normally present in the body. ... This article is about the disease that features high blood sugar. ... Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, inflammatory autoimmune disorder that causes the immune system to attack the joints. ... Red blood cell infected with Malaria (Italian: bad air; formerly called ague or marsh fever in English) is an infectious disease which in humans causes about 350-500 million infections and approxomately 1. ... The study of neural development draws on both neuroscience and developmental biology to describe the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which complex nervous systems emerge during embryonic development and throughout life. ... Genetics (from the Greek genno γεννώ= give birth) is the science of genes, heredity, and the variation of organisms. ... In medicine, biotechnology and pharmacology, drug discovery is the process by which drugs are discovered and/or designed. ...