Commemorating Savant Thakur - One Year On
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- Meet Our Talent
Meet our biomedicine students, world-class researchers and teaching talent, plus find out where our incredible graduates are now.
- Digital Learning Hub
Providing a contemporary and flexible learning experience for students while fostering academics to be at the forefront of educational technology.
- Graduate Research
We are passionate about training and mentoring the next generation of scientists. We offer PhD and MPhil degrees.
- Our Centres
Fostering collaboration between faculties, research fields and individual laboratories within the University of Melbourne and surrounding medical research institutes.
Welcome to the School of Biomedical Sciences
Together we are growing the next generation of biomedical scientists, doctors and health professionals right in the heart of the southern hemisphere’s largest biomedical precinct.
“This is an exciting time for biomedicine worldwide, and the School of Biomedical Sciences is at the forefront of teaching and research with an ultimate aim of advancing human health.”
– Professor Ian van Driel, Head of the School of Biomedical Sciences (Interim).
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E-meet a (Biomedical) Scientist 2020
From the lab to the classroom. Meet our experts talking all things biomedical sciences LIVE and ONLINE with high school students as part of National Science Week – 17 to 21 August 2020.
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Life Beyond Biomedicine. Where Will Your Degree Take You?
Join us for the SBS Careers Webinar on 18 August where our alumni panel will look at the current focus on Biomedical Science in society and our everyday lives.
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MJ Gething: supporting research momentum in ECRs
Early Career Researcher, Dr Jaime Foong from the Dept of Physiology receives MJ Gething Award.
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Professor Jennifer Wilkinson-Berka new Head of School
On Monday 3 August, Professor Jennifer Wilkinson-Berka, a leading vascular biologist, will take the helm at the School of Biomedical Sciences.
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Eponyms – and renaming body parts
A/Prof Quentin Fogg from the Dept of Anatomy and Neuroscience discusses the push for changes to medical terms on 3AW Drive.
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Multi-million dollar grant for ARC Training Centre announced
A $4.7 Million grant towards a $13 million ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre (ITTC) has been announced on the 14th of July 2020.
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Australia has a flesh-eating-bacteria problem
Professor Tim Stinear has been featured in an article in The Atlantic about Victoria’s Buruli ulcer outbreak to discuss his work mapping the spread of the disease.
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Meet our 3MT® finalists in the 2020 Grand Final (13 Aug)
Congratulations to PhD candidates Marina Župan & Samantha Davis in the School of Biomedical Sciences who made the top ten in UOM's Three Minute Thesis competition!
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A remedy for false COVID-19 cures?
Dr Christopher Rudge and Professor Megan Munsie of the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience unpack the secondary threat to consumers that has emerged during the Coronavirus outbreak - unproven COVID-19 ‘treatments’.
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Remdesivir: Australia’s first approved COVID-19 treatment
Associate Professor Stuart Ralph appeared on an SBS World News report about the drug following its approval by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA).
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Immune response to COVID-19’s spike protein: the secret to a successful vaccine?
Scientists from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Doherty Institute describe immune response to COVID-19’s spike protein.
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2020 Visualise Your Thesis competition
Registrations are now open for the competition, which challenges graduate research students to present their work in an eye-catching 60-second digital display.
The University of Melbourne is a globally engaged, comprehensive, research-intensive university uniquely positioned to respond to the major social, economic and environmental challenges of our time.
Graduate Research at MDHS
A resource for students and supervisors seeking up to date information about policies and procedures
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Research Themes
Our research is encompassed within several broad research themes. This multidisciplinary approach aims to increase the opportunities for researchers to collaborate on projects that span common themes.
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Research Groups
An overview of the research interests within the school and the project work being carried out by our research groups.
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Graduate Research
We are passionate about the training and mentoring of the next generation of scientists. A range of research degrees are offered at Master and Doctorate level.
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Research Equipment
Facilities, resources and services that are available, by negotiation with the named contacts, to members of the research community of the Faculty.
Services and Facilities
The School of Biomedical Sciences includes a number of shared research facilities, as well as several research services open to researchers external to the University of Melbourne on a fee for service basis.
Early-Mid Career Researchers Association
The School of Biomedical Sciences' Early-Mid Career Researchers Association (EMCRA) was formed to support level A and B postdoctoral researchers.
Research in the Faculty
The Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences is Australia's largest biomedical research faculty. We employ more than 1500 academic staff, 4000 honorary staff and 1500 graduate researchers undertaking world class research across a wide range of health and social issues in a diverse range of research settings. Researchers are located at key sites across Victoria, with more conducting research around the world. These renowned experts from every field can be found in labs, hospitals, affiliated research institutes and all across the wider community.
Information and support tools for Faculty staff are available on the Faculty intranet.Study at the School of Biomedical Sciences
Are you inspired by the health experts guiding us through the current pandemic? Would you like to be one of them?
Whether you want to be the public health expert who advises on policy and communications, the doctor, physiotherapist or nurse who treats patients, or the researcher or biomedical scientist who develops a vaccine – the University of Melbourne’s Bachelor of Biomedicine is the best place to start.
No matter what professional health career you pursue – or, if you have a pathway like law, engineering or business in mind – choose from 15 majors and begin your journey here.
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Degrees
Our degrees, taught by our world-renowned academics are the perfect way to begin in the field of biomedical sciences.
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Current Students
Resources and further information for current students in Biomedical Sciences.
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Graduate Research
Prospective PhD and MPhil students should visit our Research pages for more information on Graduate Research in the School of Biomedical Sciences.
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Scholarships, Bursaries and Prizes
The Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences offer an extensive range of scholarships and bursaries to undergraduate and postgraduate coursework students.
Honours & Masters by Coursework
The School's degrees each have an advanced coursework component and a research project and are grouped together for your convenience:
Meet Our Talent
Meet some of our talented biomedicine students, our world-class researchers and teaching talent, and find out where our incredible graduates are now.
Thank you for engaging with the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences.
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Alumni
Our pride in our graduates and in their lives spent improving the health and well-being of others is matched by our desire to maintain strong connections with all who have passed through our doors.
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Support
We are grateful for the many ways in which our alumni and donors support the work of the Faculty.
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Partners
We recognise partnerships and collaborations are an integral facet of our development and a major strength of the school.
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Community
The School of Biomedical Sciences includes some of the University's oldest departments and indeed the oldest biomedical science departments in the state of Victoria. For this reason it is host to a number of unique programs of both community and scientific interest.
Welcome to the School of Biomedical Sciences
One of the University’s largest and fastest growing Schools, this is home to the next generation of biomedical scientists, doctors and health professionals. As part of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences since 2015, the School has 85 research groups, across five departments, awarding-winning teachers and more than 2500 equivalent full-time student enrolments each year. Our mission – to advance human health in Australia, and beyond.
Head of School's Welcome
Leading vascular biologist and former Head of the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, Professor Wilkinson-Berka was appointed Head of School in August 2020, following Professor Ian van Driel (Interim) and the inaugural Head, immunologist Professor Fabienne Mackay.
With pre-clinical research leading to a discovery that the blockage of the hormone angiotensin II reduces retinal vascular disease, Professor Wilkinson-Berka’s work contributed to the world’s largest clinical trial evaluating angiotensin II inhibition in diabetic retinopathy.
Around the Biomedical Precinct
The School is part of the largest biomedical precinct in the southern hemisphere. It’s a hub of innovation, exceptional collaboration opportunities and cutting-edge facilities. With more than 40 hospitals, research, teaching and biotechnology organisations – and 10,000 researchers engaged in breakthrough biomedical and healthcare projects – the precinct attracts many of the brightest minds in the country, and the world.
School Executive Team
Pictured (left to right): Front row – Prof Erica Fletcher, Prof Gary Hime, Prof Fabienne Mackay, Prof Daniel Hoyer, Ms Belinda Bain
Back row – Prof Matt Watt, Prof David Williams, Prof Andrew Brooks, Prof Ian van Driel
Contact us
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