WEHI Discovery Tours

An invitation to share in our mission

For more than 90 years, scientists at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Parkville have been pursuing the mission of mastery of disease through discovery.

Our research affects men, women and children around the world.

Our scientists are dedicating their lives to master the underlying causes of cancer (breast cancer, leukaemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma), autoimmune diseases (juvenile diabetes, coeliac disease and rheumatoid arthritis) and infectious diseases (malaria, HIV, hepatitis and influenza).

Did you know…

More than 140,000 Australians have type 1 diabetes where the body’s immune system destroys essential insulin producing cells in the pancreas?
Malaria kills up to 3 million people each year?
The discovery of hormones regulating white blood cell production by Donald Metcalf and his colleagues at WEHI has led to new treatments that have benefited over 8 million cancer patients and revolutionised stem cell transplantation?
Our Nobel laureate Macfarlane Burnet developed the procedure still used today to produce influenza virus in sufficient quantities for flu vaccine?

We invite you to visit the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute to learn about our many discoveries, meet our scientists and visit some of our laboratories. We invite you to join our vision for the future, a vision that illuminates the mysteries of the human body and disease. It is an exciting future, one of hope and discovery and one that will have a lasting impact on generations to come.

WEHI Discovery Tour