Home

Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute

The Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) is changing the rules in the fight against disease, embracing new perspectives for new solutions.

We're part of the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences.

About us

Home to more than 700 researchers, 120 research groups and 200 international research collaborators, we're one of the largest – and highest quality – research institutes in the southern hemisphere.

Anatomy demonstrator using 3d images on interactive monitor

Discovery and research

With a growing pipeline of biomedical breakthroughs – such as our work with stem cells and immunology – we're accelerating discoveries in the lab into clinical treatments.

Graduate program

Hone your expertise under the guidance of at least two supervisors. Join our growing network of more than 270 PhD students across 100 labs, focused on making novel scientific discoveries.

Engage with us

We're committed to making the discoveries that will relieve the future burden of disease. But we need your help.

CAVE2 Molecular structure

Find a researcher

Our more than 120 specialised research labs are led by recognised leaders in the biomedical field.

Director's message

We're making the research discoveries that tackle global health issues.

BDI overview

Who we are

Humanity continues to face challenges in the fight against disease. Watch our two-minute video to discover what we're doing about it.

Contact us

Want to research, invest, study, or partner with us? We’d love to hear from you.

Monash BDI general enquiries
T: +61 3 9902 9400
E: bdi-enquiries@monash.edu

23 Innovation Walk
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria, 3800

Join the conversation

Test tubes orange red

Biomedicine Discovery Lectures and Seminars

Be inspired by hearing about the latest biomedical research from scientists at the top of their field. Free and open to all to attend.

Institute news

Monash University news

Paediatric brain tumour immunotherapy research awarded Ideas Grant funding

Congratulations to Dr Pouya Faridi who was recently awarded an Ideas Grant in the 2020 round of the Priority-driven Collaborative Cancer Research Scheme.

Biomedicine Discovery Institute

Monash study may help boost peptide design

Monash University news

Peptides – short strings of amino acids – play a vital role in health and industry with a huge range of medical uses including in antibiotics, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer drugs.

Biomedicine Discovery Institute

New research leads to understanding of why mutations in a gene leads to mitochondrial disease

Monash University researchers have uncovered for the first time the reason mutations in a particular gene lead to mitochondrial disease.

Biomedicine Discovery Institute

Digital learning and medical professional identity – are they compatible?

Multiple reports are questioning universities’ value and purpose in the wake of the global transition to emergency online and remote teaching. In the case of healthcare education, the future and extent of online education is particularly noteworthy given the critical reliance on human interaction for successful healthcare practice and medical outcomes.

Biomedicine Discovery Institute
Monash University news

Novel computational pipeline to conceptually change the paradigm of protein complex prediction and differential analysis using proteomic data

An international research team co-led by Dr Chen Li from the Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) at Monash University has published a landmark study in prediction and computational analysis of protein complexes using co-fractionation mass spectrometry (MS) data.

Biomedicine Discovery Institute
View more articles