The Insider Story Webinar Series
Hear from our academic staff, students, and alumni about our courses.
- 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, Interim Head of the School of Biomedical Sciences.
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Visit the National Reconciliation Week Virtual Gallery
The student-curated gallery showcases work from students, staff and alumni that responds to the 2020 theme In this together.
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Denzil Furtado: working at the frontier of biology and engineering
The Bachelor of Biomedicine alumni, former competitive athlete and now 2020 Westpac Future Leaders Scholar, discusses his PhD research into drug delivery for rare diseases.
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Is the next da Vinci among our Biomed cohort?
How visual art is helping future doctors self-express and de-stress during the pandemic.
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Apply now: Savant Thakur Memorial Scholarship
Applications are now open to graduate researchers who uphold the qualities Savant epitomised.
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NHMRC funding success for the School of Biomedical Sciences
Over $17.5 million in Investigator Grants awarded for 12 innovative research projects aimed at improving human health.
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Immunological scarring: New research reveals why your immune system can shut down
Professor Jose Villadangos has co-led new research identifying a molecular “switch” that could change how patients in intensive care – including those with COVID-19 – are managed.
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Malaria vaccine: Could this “ingredient” be the secret to success?
Professor Bill Heath and Dr Daniel Fernandez Ruiz’s research team has identified a protein that could be the key ingredient to an effective vaccine against the deadly pathogen.
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SBS Virtual Career Roundtable - 28 May
An opportunity for final year Biomedicine students to connect with talented alumni across a range of professions.
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🔉 LISTEN: BYO coffee catch-ups for BBMED students
In case you missed them, listen in on our virtual coffee catch-ups for undergraduate Biomedicine students.
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SBS researchers appear on ABC’s 7.30 Report
Professors Kanta Subbarao and Deborah Williamson were both featured to discuss issues related to coronavirus.
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Humans of Biomedicine
Meet Sadin Afsar, co-president of the 2020 Biomedicine Student Society, as he reflects on life in isolation and his dream of becoming a doctor.
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Setting it Straight: Back to Basics
In Professor Doherty's latest column, he takes a closer look at DNA, genomics and how these might help us to better understand COVID-19.
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.
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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
The School of Biomedical Sciences is part of the Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences. It was established on 1 January 2015 and comprises the Departments of Anatomy and Neuroscience, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Microbiology and Immunology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Physiology. Situated on the Parkville Campus in a rich medical practice and research precinct the School has much to offer students and researchers
Head of School's Welcome
Professor Fabienne MackayThe establishment of the School of Biomedical Sciences (SBS) within the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne on 1 January 2015 marked an important step.
Professor Fabienne Mackay Biography
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