Research
Research
The University of Melbourne educates more health professionals, graduates more research and higher degree students, produces more peer-reviewed papers and attracts more national, peer-reviewed medical research funding than any other university in Australia.
The Times Higher Education Supplement consistently ranks the University of Melbourne as the leading Australian University for bioscience.
The location of the faculty in one of the world’s most highly concentrated precincts of biomedical research is augmented by its strong links to many leading research institutes, major general and specialist hospitals and private sector knowledge based industries in Victoria and around the world.
The faculty files approximately 20 patent applications each year and more than 20 companies have emerged from the university’s biomedical research in the last ten years.
The faculty’s long-standing strength in research is based on its outstanding graduates and world leading researchers.
Our alumni include two Nobel Laureates – Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet (1960) and Sir John Eccles (1963).
Current academic staff includes Professor Peter Doherty (1996 Nobel Prize in Medicine).
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