The Florey is named to honour Professor Sir Howard Walter (Baron) Florey OM, who was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist. Born in Adelaide in 1898, he is considered to be one of our greatest scientists. Howard Florey shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the making of penicillin.
Fleming first observed the antibiotic properties of the mould that makes penicillin, but it was Chain and Florey who developed it into a useful treatment, with Florey conducting the first ever clinical trials of penicillin at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford in 1941. Florey died in Oxford in 1968.
Fleming first observed the antibiotic properties of the mould that makes penicillin, but it was Chain and Florey who developed it into a useful treatment, with Florey conducting the first ever clinical trials of penicillin at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford in 1941. Florey died in Oxford in 1968.
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The Florey recruits world class researchers, both locally and internationally and we engage the highest quality staff to support them. Our reputation for innovative research and our position as the leading brain research group in the Southern hemisphere attracts the best and brightest. Melbourne is Australia's cultural capital and it embraces the largest concentration of scientific research, development and business in the southern hemisphere.
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The Florey Department of Neuroscience and Mental Health is a Department of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at The University of Melbourne. The Florey Department is responsible for the teaching of Graduate Research degree programs including the Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Philosophy.
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