About Our Partners

The Peter Doherty Institute is a partnership between the University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, established to create a world-class institute combining research into infectious disease and immunity with teaching excellence, reference laboratory diagnostic services, epidemiology and clinical services.

Six organisations will be located together in a new, world-class laboratory complex in the Parkville precinct, including:

 

The University of Melbourne's Department of Microbiology and Immunology

The Microbiological Diagnostic Unit Public Health Laboratory,
The University of Melbourne

The Victorian Nososcomial Infection Surveillance System

The Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory

The Victorian Infectious Diseases Service

The Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative

 

In future it is envisioned other organisations will join the Doherty either in entirety or in part, such as the Nossal Institute for Global Health which will have representatives based at the Institute when it opens in 2014.