About

Hudson Institute’s reputation as a centre for research excellence draws leading scientists, clinicians and graduate students from around the world in pursuit of one mission – to collaborate to improve human health globally.

Our 457 scientists and students ask questions that push the boundaries of human knowledge to solve complex problems about human disease.

Clinical experience based on patient need informs our research enquiry, and our close ties with medical staff and industry support the translation of our discoveries into new preventative approaches, therapies and devices for patients.

AT A GLANCE  |  281 Staff  |  176 Students  |  42 Research Groups  |  250 Research publications

Our tradition is steeped in clinical collaboration. For more than half a century Hudson Institute scientists’ have worked alongside clinicians in Melbourne hospitals – patient need provides the basis for our research, and our discoveries are rapidly implemented for patient benefit.

Two of Australia’s most trusted names in medical research, Monash Institute of Medical Research and Prince Henry’s Institute of Medical Research, merged in 2014 to form Hudson Institute of Medical Research.

Our Institute is named after Professor Bryan Hudson AO, the Founding Director of Prince Henry’s Institute and Inaugural Chair of the Department of Medicine at Monash University.

Unrestricted by bureaucracy, our scientists pursue excellence in their chosen fields to answer the most pressing problems for patients.

Under the expert guidance of Director and CEO Professor Elizabeth Hartland AM, a national and international leader in the field of microbiology and immunology, Hudson Institute’s organisational structure is designed to speed progress.

Professor Hartland has held a Royal Society/NHMRC Howard Florey Fellowship in the Department of Biochemistry, Imperial College London and Lecturer/Senior Lecturer positions at Monash University, Australia. She was an inaugural Australian Research Council Future Fellowship at the University of Melbourne and subsequently held the positions of Head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne and Deputy Director of the Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity. In 2017, she become Director and CEO of the Hudson Institute of Medical Research and Head of the Department of Molecular and Translational Science at Monash University.

Our Translational Research Facility (TRF) accelerates our scientists discoveries by bringing together leading scientists and clinicians supported by state-of-the-art laboratories, world leading technology platforms and a clinical trials centre.

A link bridge connects the TRF to the Monash Medical Centre and Monash Children’s Hospital, providing a crucial connection between patients and new potential therapies. The eight bed, 21 chair clinical trials centre supports the transition of discoveries from initial Phase I testing through to Phase IV primary health trials.

176 Honours, Masters and PhD students are mentored by our senior researchers. The close proximity of Monash Medical Centre and Monash Children’s Hospital play an important role during education.

As productive members of world-class research groups, our students develop confidence and excellent skills, while the larger, open structure of collaboration between our laboratories supports expanded thinking to pursue their discoveries and publish innovative work.

Hudson Institute students are predominantly enrolled through our on-site partner, the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, part of the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University.