About Us
Medicine at St Vincent's Hospital undertakes basic, clinical and applied research in a range of areas. The ultimate goal of our research is to improve the treatment of human disease. Driven by clinical questions, our work covers aspects of the basic mechanisms of biology and physiology, clinical and community-based epidemiology, and clinical trials of new therapies and devices. We have outstanding academic and professional staff, bringing a range of clinical, research, teaching and administrative skills.
Our Academic Lead
Professor Kumar Visvanathan is a specialist infectious diseases physician and laboratory-based medical researcher whose research focus is on the basic immunology of the innate immune system in a selection of key diseases: hepatitis, cancer, rotavirus, sepsis/infections involving Group A streptococci, mycobacteria and rheumatoid arthritis. He holds appointments as Professor of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, The University of Melbourne; Infectious Diseases Physician at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne; and Co-Director, Immunology Research Centre, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne.
Key Research Areas
Medicine at St Vincent's Hospital has a wide breadth of research interests that span basic wet-lab science, health economics and clinical epidemiology, clinical trials that test efficacy of new drugs and life style modifications and extend into the area of translational research.
The core research foci have been on diabetes and its complications, kidney disorders, vascular disease, nutritional intervention, inflammation and thrombosis. New areas of activity include clinical neurosciences with a focus on epilepsy, innate immunity and infectious diseases, genetics of leukaemia, inflammatory bowel disease and other gastrointestinal disorders, and health outcomes.
Location:
Clinical Sciences Building,
Level 4 / 29 Regent Street,
Fitzroy VIC 3065, Australia