Summary

The John Curtin School of Medical Research was founded in 1948 and is Australia's national medical research institute. It was the concept of Australian-born Baron Howard Florey who won the Nobel Prize in 1945 for his contribution to create penicillin as a drug, while working at Oxford University. Today, the School's researchers conduct multidisciplinary translational medical research in fields including: immunology, genomics, neuroscience, mental health, infectious diseases, obesity and metabolic disorders.

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The John Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR) is named after Australia's wartime Prime Minister, John Curtin who was very supportive of Florey's concept for an Australian-based, world-class, medical research school. JCSMR has the distinction of three of its investigators receiving Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine: Sir John Eccles in 1963 and Peter Doherty and Rolf Zinkernagel in 1996. A former Director, Professor Frank Fenner was the Chairman of the Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication.

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Archival resources

National Centre for Indigenous Genomics

• Administration: John Curtin School of Medical Research Annual Reports, 1967 - 1974, ADMIN-02; National Centre for Indigenous Genomics. Details
• Correspondence and List of Study Participants, 1977, 02D-48; National Centre for Indigenous Genomics. Details
• Correspondence and Study Proposal, 1991 - 1993, 06A-02; National Centre for Indigenous Genomics. Details
• The John Curtin School of Medical Research, The first fifty years, 1948-1998, 1948 - 1998, PUB-008; National Centre for Indigenous Genomics. Details
• Laboratory Notes, Report and Correspondence, 1990 - 1999, 06A-01; National Centre for Indigenous Genomics. Details
• Printed Material, 1935 - 1994, PUB 21-30; National Centre for Indigenous Genomics. Details
• Telegrams, 1968 - 1970, 02B-31; National Centre for Indigenous Genomics. Details