The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) was founded in 1915 as a benevolence of the perpetual charitable Walter and Eliza Hall Trust to be "the birthplace of discoveries rendering signal service to mankind in the prevention and removal of disease and the mitigation of suffering".

Currently the staff comprises over 600 scientists, post-doctoral fellows, post-graduate students, technologists and support staff working at three sites:

• the principal research laboratories in Parkville
• the Biotechnology Centre in La Trobe University's R&D Park; and
• the Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Laboratories at Kew.

WEHI is affiliated with the University of Melbourne and the Royal Melbourne Hospital and offers postgraduate training as the Department of Medical Biology of the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Our mission is the "Mastery of Disease Through Discovery", within the Research Themes of

• Cancer: leukaemia, lymphoma, breast cancer
• Immunity: immune regulation, vaccines, immunotherapy
• Autoimmunity: diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, coeliac disease
• Infectious Diseases: malaria, leishmaniasis