Hunter Medical Research Institute
Research for our future

HMRI is one of Australia’s leading health and medical institutes and is the only comprehensive institute of its kind to be based in regional Australia.

Established in 1998 as a partnership between Hunter Health, The University of Newcastle and the Hunter community, HMRI’s goal is to provide a platform for the development of biotechnology based industries and support and promote world class health and medical research, training and employment in the Hunter.

HMRI has more than 350 researchers across several university and hospital sites working collaboratively in the key research programs of Brain and Mental Health, Cancer, Cardiovascular Health, Health Behaviour and Public Health, Mothers and Babies and Vaccines, Immunity, Viruses and Asthma (VIVA).

HMRI’s goal is to create a better life for humanity through medical research.

Medical breakthroughs don’t happen overnight. They involve many years of intensive investigation, detail laboratory work and stringently monitored clinical studies.

If you’d like to help in the quest to beat cancer, understand mental illness, cure asthma and prevent disease. Please log on to www.hmri.net.au and find out more.