News & Events
- 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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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.
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Georgina Sweet Awards 2020 – Applications now open
The awards, which have opened in the lead-up to International Women in Maths Day, recognise the contributions of Australian female researchers to the field of quantitative biomedical science.
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Attention Biomed students: want to create your own subject?
In a University first, students are invited to enter the School’s Create a Subject Challenge where the winners will become co-creators of a new area of study.
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Remdesivir – A potential coronavirus treatment?
Dr Elena Schneider-Futschik has been featured in The Guardian to comment on the therapeutic potential of the drug for COVID-19.