Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Department of Structural Biology IG Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria 3050 Australia... 

Joint Protein Structure Laboratory, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (Melbourne) and The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Vic., Australia, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic., Australia Biotechnology Research Laboratory, TOSOH Corporation, Kanagawa, 252, Japan Current Address AMRAD Laboratories, Hawthorn, Vic., Australia... 

Alan Cowman (1954-) began his PhD at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute... 

The apical merozoite antigen (AMA-1) is a merozoite protein presently under consideration as a candidate for inclusion in a blood-stage vaccine (Cowman et al., 2000). First identified at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI) using human antibodies purified on a recombinant protein... 

Burnat, Sir Frank Maefarlane (1899-1985) Australian virologist, who spent his working life at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne. In the early 1930s he developed a method of growing influenza virus in chick embryos. He later discovered that immunological tolerance (failure of the immune response) required repeated exposure to the antigen. For this work he shared the 1960 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine with Sir Peter Medawar. He dso proposed the clonal selection theory. 

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