Club Visit
Mar 14, 2017
Visit to The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
Club Visit
This is a unique opportunity to visit Australia’s oldest research institute.
‘For more than 100 years, the institute’s discoveries have advanced scientific thinking, improved clinical practice and resulted in new and more effective treatments for patients. Around 100 clinical trials based on discoveries made at the Institute are underway. These include trials of vaccines for type 1 diabetes, coeliac disease and malaria, and trials of a new class of anti-cancer agents for treating patients with leukaemia’
Did you know there are over 1800 people working at the institute?
You may recall the excellent presentation by Dr Justin Boddey at one of our meetings last year.
The details of the visit are:
Date: Tuesday 14th March (no meeting at Kooyong that day).
Time: 12 p.m - 1p.m. (ie: approximately a 1 hour tour).
Place: 1G Royal Parade, Parkville (behind the Royal Melbourne Private Hospital).
Transport: *Car Pool being considered from Kooyong LTC
NB: **We need to be at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute by 11.50a.m.
Parking:
We have been advised of the following:
Royal Melbourne Hospital car park beside the Institute
Or across the road at the University of Melbourne Royal Parade carpark
*(there 'may' be limited parking in the forecourt of the Institute…...subject to construction works about to begin).
Cost: No cost for the tour.
Lunch: After the tour: Naughtons Hotel, Parkville
**Please note: It is a safety regulation of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute that we all wear enclosed footwear**
**Bookings for the tour are essential....