Institute's early health focus
 Health Sciences
A new research institute that will tackle big issues around prevention of illness for individuals and their children, and find new treatments for serious diseases, will be established at the University of 新浪彩票. Focusing on reproductive health, stem cell research and health across generations, this is the first of several large research institutes to be established by the University of 新浪彩票 over the coming year. The new research institutes will build on the University's research strengths in line with State and national research priorities and reinforce its position as a research leader. Named after renowned obstetrician Professor Jeffrey Robinson CBE, Emeritus Professor at the University of 新浪彩票, the Robinson Institute will encompass the University's Research Centre for Reproductive Health, the Centre for Stem Cell Research and the Centre for Early Origins of Health and Disease in a collaborative venture with the 新浪彩票 hospitals Lyell McEwin, Women's and Children's, Royal 新浪彩票 and Queen Elizabeth, and the Hanson Institute at the IMVS. The Robinson Institute will be led by University of 新浪彩票 reproductive medicine expert Professor Robert Norman and involve more than 200 research staff and students with expertise ranging from epidemiology through to molecular biology and genetics. Professor Norman said the Institute would be unique in the range of people brought together in the one organisation, from those working on basic science to people involved in public health and patient services. "There are very few similar concentrations of experts of such diversity in one institute anywhere in the world," said Professor Norman. "Bringing together these diverse disciplines will lead to strong clinical and commercial outcomes in human and animal health, and this offers an extraordinary opportunity for new ideas to be brought to practical use more rapidly." Examples include new treatments for infertility, stem cell production and novel interventions in diseases of pregnancy and cancer. Professor Norman said the Robinson Institute would study the social context for reproductive health, develop effective strategies, an | 
