ResearchHealth

Basil Hetzel Institute bench-to-bedside focus for research with Adelaide's Queen Elizabeth hospital

Basil Hetzel Institute bench-to-bedside focus for research with Adelaide's Queen Elizabeth hospital
Professor Tim Price (centre), oncologist at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, with his 2019 solid tumor research group, one of the speciality teams at the Basil Hetzel institute. 
Image courtesy Basil Hetzel Institute for Translational Health Research

The Basil Hetzel Institute for Translational Health Research in 2009 became the research arm of The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and home to almost 200 researchers and research administrative staff in the Adelaide suburb of Woodville.

The institute provided a dynamic state-of-the-art research environment for vital bench-to-bedside research and research training. Affiliated with Adelaide University, Flinders University and the University of South Australia, the Basil Hetzel Institute was a short walk from The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, allowing for a vital and active interface between researchers and clinicians.

All research groups had strong links to clinical divisions within the hospital, underpinning the institute’s overarching focus on translational health research. This bench-to-bedside approach headed an emerging area of medical science to improve public health through collaborative discoveries and innovations in patient care, education and research.

Research by the institute covered a broad spectrum, exploring causes, potential improvements in therapeutic outcomes and preventing some of the most serious and common health conditions. Research areas included: ageing, cancer (breast, bowel, liver metastasis, prostate and oesophageal), cardiovascular disease, chronic disease; clinical sciences, health services and population health; drug and vaccine development; inflammatory disease. 

Building on The Queen Elizabeth Hospital’s impressive research record, the institute was named after the hospital’s first professor of medicine and one of Australia’s leading medical researchers Basil Hetzel. Hetzel was revered worldwide for his pioneering work that discovered the link between iodised salt in the diet and preventing brain damage in newborns. Dr Hetzel’s ground-breaking research helped millions of children in 130 countries where iodine was lacking.

Other related ADELAIDE AZ articles

One of the illicit tobacco shops in Adelaide suburbs gets a shutdown notice during the December 2024 clampdown. The South Australian government’s nation-leading crackdown on the illicit tobacco and vape market was a response to organised crime controlling an estimated 75% of the illicit tobacco market in Australia.
Crime >
Shutdown orders for illicit tobacco shops in Adelaide suburbs from 2024 in South Australia government clampdown
READ MORE+
The South Australian government SA Health department policy supporting breastfeeding was based on compelling evidence showing it protected against a wide range of short- and longer-term health problems in infants and mothers.
Women >
South Australia's health department policy set state-wide to protect, promote and support breastfeeding benefits
READ MORE+
An 1980s version (at right) of the electro-convulsive shock treatment (ECT) device, still with a telephone dial, developed for Adelaide's Parkside Hospital (later Glenside), above left.
Health >
Adelaide's Parkside hospital the first in Australia to use electro-convulsive shocks to treat mental illness
READ MORE+
Bex Powders, claiming mutiple health benefits, and (below) the Beckers Pty Ltd factory in the Adelaide suburb of Dudley Park where Bex manufacturing started in the 1920s.
Business B (20th Century) >
Bex origins from 1920s at an Adelaide factory; powders taken with a cup of tea, a good lie down, kidney disease
READ MORE+
Possibly Australia's first X ray image – of Adelaide University professor and later Nobel laureate William Bragg's hand – from 1897 and an 18th Century ship’s surgeon’s kit are among possible South Australian items for a medical heritage museum.
Museums >
Medical heritage on a website for society to compile list of scattered South Australian items for physical museum
READ MORE+
Sue Dixon took over the national salmonella reference centre at the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science started by mentor and good friend Dr Nancy Atkinson.
Research >
'Salmonella Sue' Dixon's 1977 research triumph at Adelaide's IMVS part of food microbiology in Australia transformed
READ MORE+

 

 
©2025 Adelaide AZ | Privacy | Terms & Disclaimer | PWA 1.1.58