The Howard Florey Institute is holding its first online charity auction to raise funds for brain research and two great cycling prizes personally signed by Australian cycling legend Phil Anderson are ...

New research from Melbourne's Howard Florey Institute helps to explain why children with autism spectrum disorders (autism) have problem-solving difficulties. Using functional magnetic resonance ...

Scientists from Melbourne's Howard Florey Institute have found special proteins that protect the brain after it has been damaged by a lack of oxygen, which occurs in conditions such as stroke, ...

While Florey researchers have also created a genetic test for PD (10% of PD cases are caused by genetic factors), this new test has a broader application by screening for many different types of PD ...

Howard Florey is well-known to Australians as one of the founding fathers of penicillin - but he never enjoyed the international fame accorded to Alexander Fleming, the scientist with whom he shared ...

On 2 September 1940, as the Battle of Britain raged, a short, grey-headed man with a dapper bow tie presented himself at the pathology laboratory at Oxford University. “Hullo,” he said to the grouchy, ...

One advantage possessed by internationally influential Australians is the ability to move easily between these two different and, in their own way, insular cultures. According to Brett Mason, to be an ...

THE Lister Medal for 1945 of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, which is awarded in recognition of distinguished contributions to surgical science, has been granted to Sir Howard Florey, ...