BioMelbourne Network
Progressing BioIndustry
Parkville
Victoria’s Parkville Precinct has long been recognised within Australia and overseas as a hub of excellence in healthcare, research and education.
The Parkville Precinct, located on the northern edge of Melbourne’s Central Business District (CBD), is home to a number of established institutions which deliver high levels of health, social and economic benefits to Victoria and Australia.
Parkville’s history is entwined with health, research and education. The University of Melbourne, home to one of Victoria’s three medical schools, was established there during the 1850s and the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Australia’s oldest and largest medical research institute, was founded in 1915. Within the precinct, a number of key research facilities are conveniently located within or near major tertiary hospitals which provides the opportunity for a ‘laboratory bench to hospital bed’ (translational research) approach to medical research. In addition, the relationships between the University of Melbourne, the major teaching hospitals and the research institutes in the precinct provide the basis for further developing, housing and trialling cutting edge technologies and treatments that flow from international and interstate developments. The new AU$1 billion Parkville Comprehensive Cancer Centre is currently under development in the precinct with construction due for completion in 2015.
The boundaries of the Parkville precinct have expanded over time to include nearby biomedical and biotech organisations with affiliations to the precinct. These include the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, St Vincent’s Hospital, St Vincent’s Institute, the Centre for Eye Research Australia, the Bionic Ear Institute and the O’Brien Institute.
Organisations based in the Parkville cluster include:
Universities
• The University of Melbourne
Medical Research Institutes
• Bionic Ear Institute
• O’Brien Institute
• Centre for Eye Research Australia
• Florey Neuroscience Institutes
• Institute for Breathing and Sleep
• Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research – Melbourne Branch
• Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research – Melbourne Centre
• The Mental Health Research Institute
• Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
• National Ageing Research Institute
• National Vision Research Institute
• St Vincent’s Institute
• Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Hospitals
• Austin Health
• Melbourne Health (Royal Melbourne Hospital)
• Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
• Royal Children’s Hospital
• Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne
• Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital
• Royal Women’s Hospital
• St Vincent’s Hospital
• Western Health
Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs)
• CRC for Oral Health Science
• The HEARing CRC
NHMRC Centres of Clinical Research Excellence (CCREs)
• Diabetes CCRE
• The Gait CCRE
• Immunisation CCRE
• CCRE for Translational Clinical Research in Major Eye Diseases
• CCRE in Newborn Medicine
Other organisations
• Australian Genome Research Facility (AGRF)
• Bio21 Cluster
• Bio21 Institute
• BioGrid Australia
• Cancer Trials Australia
• CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies
• CSL Ltd
• Neurosciences Victoria
• NICTA (National ICT Australia)
• Monash University Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
