HOWARD FLOREY INSTITUTE - AUSTRALIA'S BRAIN RESEARCH CENTRE

CARDIOVASCULAR PHARMACOLOGY UNIT

Director: Frederick Mendelsohn

Discoveries made at the Howard Florey Institute are helping to improve the lives of those directly, and indirectly, affected by brain disorders in Australia and around the world.

At the Howard Florey Institute, internationally renowned scientists work together with talented young researchers to make discoveries about the brain and mind. Our scientists conduct fundamental research that can be developed into drugs to combat brain injury and mind disorders, and into new medical practices.

These discoveries will improve the lives of those directly, and indirectly, affected by brain and mind disorders in Australia and around the world.

Research into antioxidants and cardiovascular drugs for atherosclerosis, heart attack and stroke. Animal and cellular models of artery disease, atherosclerosis, cardiac ischaemia and reperfusion injury and stroke, including genes involved. Available for investment or contract research.