Menzies Institute for Medical Research

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Menzies Institute for Medical Research

Established| 1988 (1988)
Mission| Medical research
Chair| Bruce Neill
Faculty| University of Tasmania
Adjunct faculty| Royal Hobart Hospital
Formerly called| Menzies Centre for Population Health Research
Location|

17 Liverpool Street

Hobart

Tasmania

Australia

Coordinates| 42°52′42″S 147°19′47″E﻿ / ﻿42.8783889°S 147.329861°E﻿ / -42.8783889; 147.329861
Website| menzies.utas.edu.au

The Menzies Institute for Medical Research is an Australian medical research institute of the University of Tasmania based in Hobart, Tasmania. Formerly known as the Menzies Centre for Population Health Research, the institute was established in 1988 and conducts medical research to improve human health and well-being.[1]

## History

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MS2 building on Bathurst Street

In the late 1980s, the Menzies Foundation supported the establishment of an epidemiology research centre at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, to be named the Menzies Centre for Population Health Research. The foundation provided annual funding to the institute and was successful in obtaining matching funds from the Tasmanian government. The Menzies Centre for Population Health Research was formed in 1988 and became the Menzies Research Institute in 2004.

From modest beginnings, the Menzies Research Institute quickly gained a reputation for its ground-breaking work into the link between babies’ sleeping position and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).[citation needed] Menzies developed into an established centre for population health research, with a global reputation in epidemiology. Some notable successes included highlighting the importance of vitamin D in the development of bones in children and adults;[citation needed] showing evidence of the link between early life sun exposure and susceptibility to multiple sclerosis;[citation needed] and discovering platelets found in the blood kill the malaria parasite during the early stages of a malarial infection.[2]

## Current research

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Its research efforts focus on preventing a range of diseases including cancer, multiple sclerosis, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic lung disease, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, epilepsy and dementia.[3]

The institute's five major research themes are public health and primary care, brain diseases and injury, heart and blood vessels, bone and muscle health, and cancer, genetics and immunology.[4]

## Research centres

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The Menzies Research Institute Tasmania has two research centres; the Australian Cancer Research Foundation Tasmanian Inherited Cancer Centre[5] and the Wicking Dementia and Research Education Centre.[6]

## See also

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* Australia portal
* Biology portal

* Health in Australia

## References

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1. ^ "Menzies Research Institute Tasmania - Home". Menzies.utas.edu.au. Archived from the original on 10 November 2012. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
2. ^ "Menzies Research Institute Tasmania". Department of Health and Human Services. Government of Tasmania. 12 February 2010. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
3. ^ "Menzies Research Institute Tasmania - Overview". Menzies.utas.edu.au. Archived from the original on 15 November 2012. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
4. ^ "Home page". Menzies Research Institute Tasmania. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
5. ^ "ACRF Tasmanian Inherited Cancer Centre - $1.1 million grant". Australian Cancer Research Foundation.
6. ^ "Wicking Dementia and Research Education Centre". Menzies Research Institute Tasmania. 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2016.

## External links

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* Official website

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University of Tasmania

Tasmania

Leadership|

Visitor
Governor of Tasmania
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Alison Watkins
Vice-Chancellor
Rufus Black

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* College of Arts, Law and Education
* College of Health and Medicine
* Menzies Institute for Medical Research
* College of Sciences and Engineering
* Australian Maritime College
* Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture
* Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies
* Tasmanian School of Business and Economics
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* Christ College
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* Australian football
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* AITHM
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* Menzies

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