- About
- Strategic Plan
- Structure
- Governance
- Scientific divisions
- ACRF Cancer Biology and Stem Cells
- ACRF Chemical Biology
- Advanced Technology and Biology
- Bioinformatics
- Blood Cells and Blood Cancer
- Clinical Translation
- Epigenetics and Development
- Immunology
- Infectious Diseases and Immune Defence
- Inflammation
- Personalised Oncology
- Population Health and Immunity
- Structural Biology
- Ubiquitin Signalling
- Laboratory operations
- Funding
- Annual reports
- Human research ethics
- Scientific integrity
- Institute life
- Career opportunities
- Business Development
- Partnering opportunities
- A complete cure for HBV
- A stable efficacious Toxoplasma vaccine
- Activating SMCHD1 to treat FSHD
- Fut8 Sugar coating immuno oncology
- Intercepting inflammation with RIPK2 inhibitors
- Precision epigenetics silencing SMCHD1 to treat Prader Willi Syndrome
- Rethinking CD52 a therapy for autoimmune disease
- Targeting plasmacytoid dendritic cells for systemic lupus erythematosus
- Treating Epstein-Barr virus associated malignancies
- Royalties distribution
- Start-up companies
- Partnering opportunities
- Collaborators
- Publications repository
- Awards
- Discoveries
- Centenary 2015
- History
- Contact us
- Research
- Diseases
- Cancer
- Development and ageing
- Immune health and infection
- Research fields
- Research technologies
- People
- Anne-Laure Puaux
- Associate Professor Aaron Jex
- Associate Professor Alyssa Barry
- Associate Professor Andrew Webb
- Associate Professor Anne Voss
- Associate Professor Chris Tonkin
- Associate Professor Daniel Gray
- Associate Professor Edwin Hawkins
- Associate Professor Ethan Goddard-Borger
- Associate Professor Grant Dewson
- Associate Professor Isabelle Lucet
- Associate Professor James Murphy
- Associate Professor Jeanne Tie
- Associate Professor Jeff Babon
- Associate Professor Joan Heath
- Associate Professor Justin Boddey
- Associate Professor Marco Herold Marco Herold
- Associate Professor Marie-Liesse Asselin-Labat
- Associate Professor Marnie Blewitt
- Associate Professor Matthew Ritchie
- Associate Professor Mike Lawrence
- Associate Professor Oliver Sieber
- Associate Professor Rachel Wong
- Associate Professor Ruth Kluck
- Associate Professor Sandra Nicholson
- Associate Professor Seth Masters
- Associate Professor Sumitra Ananda
- Associate Professor Tim Thomas
- Associate Professor Wai-Hong Tham
- Associate Professor Wei Shi
- Catherine Parker
- Dr Anna Coussens
- Dr Ashley Ng
- Dr Ben Tran
- Dr Bernhard Lechtenberg
- Dr Bob Anderson
- Dr Brad Sleebs
- Dr Diana Hansen
- Dr Drew Berry
- Dr Emma Josefsson
- Dr Gemma Kelly
- Dr Gwo Yaw Ho
- Dr Hui-Li Wong
- Dr Hélène Jousset Sabroux
- Dr Ian Majewski
- Dr Ian Street
- Dr Jacqui Gulbis
- Dr James Vince
- Dr Joanna Groom
- Dr John Wentworth
- Dr Kate Sutherland
- Dr Kelly Rogers
- Dr Leanne Robinson
- Dr Leigh Coultas
- Dr Lucy Gately
- Dr Margaret Lee
- Dr Mary Ann Anderson
- Dr Maryam Rashidi
- Dr Matthew Call
- Dr Melissa Call
- Dr Melissa Davis
- Dr Misty Jenkins
- Dr Peter Czabotar
- Dr Philippe Bouillet
- Dr Rhys Allan
- Dr Samir Taoudi
- Dr Sant-Rayn Pasricha
- Dr Shalin Naik
- Dr Sheau Wen Lok
- Dr Simon Chatfield
- Dr Stephen Wilcox
- Dr Tracy Putoczki
- Guillaume Lessene
- Helene Martin
- Keely Bumsted O'Brien
- Mr Joel Chibert
- Mr Simon Monard
- Mr Steve Droste
- Ms Carolyn MacDonald
- Ms Samantha Ludolf
- Professor Alan Cowman
- Professor Andreas Strasser
- Professor Andrew Lew
- Professor Andrew Roberts
- Professor Clare Scott
- Professor David Huang
- Professor David Komander
- Professor David Vaux
- Professor Doug Hilton
- Professor Gabrielle Belz
- Professor Geoff Lindeman
- Professor Gordon Smyth
- Professor Ian Wicks
- Professor Ivo Mueller
- Professor Jane Visvader
- Professor Jason Tye-Din
- Professor Jerry Adams
- Professor John Silke
- Professor Ken Shortman
- Professor Leonard C Harrison
- Professor Lynn Corcoran
- Professor Marc Pellegrini
- Professor Melanie Bahlo
- Professor Nicos Nicola
- Professor Peter Colman
- Professor Peter Gibbs
- Professor Phil Hodgkin
- Professor Stephen Nutt
- Professor Suzanne Cory
- Professor Terry Speed
- Professor Tony Burgess
- Professor Tony Papenfuss
- Professor Warren Alexander
- Diseases
- Education
- PhD
- Honours
- Masters
- Undergraduate
- Student research projects
- 6 cysteine proteins key mediators between malaria parasites and human host
- A balancing act of immunity: autoimmunity versus malignancies
- Activating https://www.wehi.edu.au/node/add/individual-student-research-page#Parkin to treat Parkinson’s disease
- Analysing single cell technologies to understand breast cancer
- Bioinformatics methods for detecting and making sense of somatic genomic rearrangements
- Characterising new regulators in inflammatory signalling pathways
- Computational melanoma genomics
- Control of human lymphocyte cell expansion in complex immune diseases
- Deciphering biophysical changes in red blood cell membrane during malaria parasite infection
- Deciphering the signalling functions of pseudokinases
- Deep profiling of blood cancers during targeted therapy
- Determining the mechanism of type I cytokine receptor triggering
- Differential expression analysis of RNA-seq using multivariate variance modelling
- Discovering new genetic causes of primary antibody deficiencies
- Discovery of novel drug combinations for the treatment of bowel cancer
- Drug targets and compounds that block growth of malaria parasites
- Enabling deubiquitinase drug discovery
- Epigenetic drivers of immune cell function
- Exploiting cell death pathways in regulatory T cells for cancer immunotherapy
- Fatal attraction: how apoptotic pore assembly is governed during mitochondrial cell death
- Genomic instability and the immune microenvironment in lung cancer
- How do T lymphocytes decide their fate?
- How the epigenetic regulator SMCHD1 works and how to target it to treat disease
- Human lung protective immunity to tuberculosis: host-environment systems biology
- Human monoclonal antibodies against malaria infection
- Identifying novel treatment options for ovarian carcinosarcoma
- Inflammasome activation in autoinflammatory disease
- Investigating mechanisms of cell death and survival using zebrafish
- Investigating microbial natural products with anti-protozoal activity
- Investigating the role of mutant p53 in cancer
- Investigating the role of platelets in motor neuron disease
- Mapping DNA repair networks in cancer
- Molecular mechanisms controlling embryonic lung progenitor cells
- Nanobodies against malaria
- Neutrophil heterogeneity in inflammation
- New approaches to treat cancer and inflammatory disease using the ubiquitin system
- Next generation CRISPR screens using iPSC
- Novel cell death and inflammatory modulators in lupus
- Programming T cells to defend against infections
- Restraining cytokine-receptor signalling in myeloproliferative neoplasms
- Screening for regulators of jumping genes
- Statistical analysis of genome-wide chromatin organisation using Hi-C
- Statistical analysis of trapped-ion-mobility time-of-flight mass spectrometry proteomics data
- Structure and function of E3 ubiquitin ligases
- Target identification of potent antimalarial agents
- The mitochondrial TOM complex in neurodegenerative disease
- The molecular mechanisms underlying Kir4.1 activity in gliomas
- The role of differential splicing in the genesis of breast cancer
- Uncovering the roles of long non-coding RNAs in human bowel cancer
- Understanding malaria infection dynamics
- Understanding the function of the E3 ligase Parkin in Parkinson’s disease
- Understanding the molecular basis of chromosome instability in gastric cancer
- Utilising pre-clinical models to discover novel therapies for tuberculosis
- School resources
- Frequently asked questions
- Student profiles
- Student achievements
- Student association
- News
- Donate
- Online donation
- Ways to support
- Support outcomes
- Supporter stories
- Rotarians against breast cancer
- A partnership to improve treatments for cancer patients
- 20 years of cancer research support from the Helpman family
- A generous gift from a cancer survivor
- A gift to support excellence in Australian medical research
- An enduring friendship
- Anonymous donor helps bridge the 'valley of death'
- Renewed support for HIV eradication project
- Searching for solutions to muscular dystrophy
- Supporting research into better treatments for colon cancer
- Taking a single cell focus with the DROP-seq
- WEHI.TV
Student profiles
More than 200 students work within our research teams tackling important questions in medical research.
Learn about the experiences and achievements of some of our current students and recent graduates.
 Komal PatelKomal's Honours studies have provided many opportunities to develop her research skills. |
 Wil LehmannHonours student Wil is exploring how viruses take over host cells |
 Runyu MaoRunyu's PhD project involves organic and protein chemistry. |
 Anna GabrielyanAnna is supported by our International PhD Scholars Initiative. |
 Kaiseal Sarson-LawrencePhD student Kaiseal explains why it's important for students to maintain work-life balance. |
 Simona SeizovaFind out why PhD student Simona believes Toxoplasma gondii is perhaps the world’s most successful parasite. |
 Jing DengJing's Honours studies are helped by access to advanced research technologies and our supportive and collaborative culture. |
 Huon WongOur supportive and collaborative culture helped Huon Wong decide to join our Honours program.. |
 Roberto BonelliPhD student Roberto uses statistics to explore the stories behind the data in helping find treatments for a rare eye disease called macular telangiectasia. |
 Alexandra GurzauHear from Alexandra about her experiences as an Honours student undertaking epigenetics research in 2016. |
 Dr Andrew BaldiAndrew's clinician-PhD studies combine his interests in haematology and global health. |
 Joy LiuPhD student Joy has contributed to many aspects of Institute research through undergraduate placements, as a research assistant, and as an Honours student. |
 Rune LarsenA PhD student from Denmark, Rune's research helps to understand how autoimmune conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis develop. |
 Dr Sarah GarnerClinician-PhD student Dr Sarah Garner is looking at how HIV hides itself in the body. |
 Casey Ah-CannFor her PhD research, Casey is searching for genes that are crucial for the earliest stages of lung development. |
 Miles HortonPhD student Miles is investigating how immune T cells function in the hope of one day developing immune-based therapies. |
 Catia PierottiFor her PhD studies, Catia is investigating how ‘necroptosis’, a form of cell death, is regulated. |
 Rebecca DelconteRebecca's PhD studies in cancer immunotherapy allowed her to develop a broad range of skills. |
 Dr Emma NolanA PhD student from New Zealand, Emma's research pinpointed a potential new approach to preventing breast cancer in at-risk women. |
 Dr Abebe FolaRecent PhD graduate Mr Abebe Fola's research was focused on ending the suffering caused by malaria. |
