Lost in Translation?

Where to now for Australian Medical Research…

For each of these vaccines and medicines on the market then, now and in the future, we have to thank translational research: the expensive and time consuming process of taking basic science to its practical application.

Australian medical research is world class but very few Australians know that. The reality is that despite the relatively small size of our population and economy, Australia has globally significant early research, and our medical research community is considered to be a rich source of potential new discoveries to address the world’s unmet medical needs.

1915

World War I demonstrates that Australia can’t rely on overseas sources for life-saving medicine. The Government pledges to establish a federal serum um institute.

1918

CSL moves into its site in Parkville, Melbourne where it remains today.

1923

Soon after the Canadian discovery of insulin, CSL becomes one of only four labs in the world to produce it, producing