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The Carl Wood Endowment was established by the Monash University Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology to provide funds for the research development of young clinicians. More recently the Carl Wood Chair was established by the same department. Wood has been called variously the father, [1] grandfather [5] and godfather [6] of IVF.
Led by Carl Wood and Alan Trounson, the Monash IVF Program achieved the world's first clinical IVF pregnancy in 1973. [34] In 1980, they delivered the first IVF baby in Australia. [ 35 ] This eventually became a massive source of revenue for the university at a time when university funding in Australia was beginning to slow down.
She then engaged in postdoctoral studies at Howard Hughes Medical Institute with the University of Texas, before moving to Australia in 1989 to join Monash University. [ 2 ] Loveland is a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia senior research fellow (since 2000) and is a fellow of the Society for the Study of Reproduction.
In 2016, Monash University partnered with the Hudson Institute of Medical Research and Monash Health to open a new translational research facility at the Monash Health Translation Precinct (MHTP), which co-locates scientists, researchers, clinicians and patients in a collaborative environment. [13]
The centre is now known as the Monash Bioethics Centre. It focusses on the branch of ethics known as bioethics , a field relating to biological science and medicine. It was founded in October 1980 by Professors Peter Singer and Helga Kuhse , [ 1 ] as the first centre in Australia devoted to bioethics, and one of the first in the world.
Monash Medical Centre was formed in 1987 with the amalgamation of the Queen Victoria Medical Centre (an obstetric and gynaecological hospital in central Melbourne), Prince Henry's Hospital (a general hospital in South Melbourne) and the Moorabbin Hospital (a general hospital in Moorabbin). It was built on the site of McCulloch House, a nursing ...
Monash University is an Australian university located in Melbourne, Australia with some international campuses. It was established by an Act of the State Parliament of Victoria in 1958 as a result of the Murray Report which was commissioned in 1957 by the then Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies to establish the second university in the state of Victoria.
The history of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) goes back more than half a century. In 1959 the first birth in a nonhuman mammal resulting from IVF occurred, and in 1978 the world's first baby conceived by IVF was born. As medicine advanced, IVF was transformed from natural research to a stimulated clinical treatment.