About Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute
Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute is an independent, internationally renowned medical research facility. Our work extends from the laboratory to wide-scale community studies with a focus on diagnosis, prevention and treatment of diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Our mission is to reduce death and disability from cardiovascular disease, diabetes and related disorders; two insidious and complex diseases responsible for the most deaths and the highest costs in the world in terms of treatments and hospitalisation.
Our main laboratory facilities located on the Alfred Medical Research and Education Precinct (AMREP) in Melbourne are complemented by a national network that includes a research facility in Alice Springs dedicated to indigenous health and a preventative health laboratory in South Australia with a focus on nutrition and community intervention research.
The institute's work covers five broad themes of research, each of which supports groups of scientists who work in a laboratory setting as well as researchers who work in the community. This integration of basic scientists with epidemiologists, clinicians and public health professionals is central to Baker IDI's strategy to perform research that is directly informed by community needs and to translate discoveries into everyday clinical practice.
Our five research themes include:
- Population Studies & Profiling
- Metabolism & Obesity
- Diabetic Complications
- Vascular Biology & Hypertension
- Cardiology & Therapeutics
Baker IDI also has a strong presence in health care which includes a multidisciplinary, evidence-based Specialist Diabetes Clinic, diabetes education, and a world class Healthy Hearts Clinic, providing cardiovascular disease risk assessments to the community.
The Institute is active in training health professionals and collaborating on international projects in heart disease and diabetes. In 2010, the Institute opened the Healthy Lifestyle Research Centre, enabling researchers from a variety of disciplines to examine the role of nutrition, physical exercise, genetic and environmental factors influencing disease.
For more information, visit: www.bakeridi.edu.au