The Snow Centre for Immune Health aims to transform how immune diseases are treated and understood. The centre is co-led by WEHI and the Royal Melbourne Hospital, in partnership with the Snow Medical Research Foundation.
You can contribute to new research in immune health. We’re inviting patients with immune diseases and healthy volunteers to participate in immune health clinical research.
By joining this study, you will be helping scientists make important discoveries about the immune system. Your contribution could lead to better treatments, earlier diagnoses, and improved health outcomes for people in the future. Together, we can help shape the future of medicine.
Register your interest in the study
The Snow Centre Research Unit
The Snow Centre Clinical Research Unit, situated at the Royal Melbourne Hospital (the RMH), gives people suffering from immune conditions and healthy volunteers the opportunity to contribute to research aimed at developing better diagnostics and treatment.
The initial focus of the clinics is on four major areas of disease:
- primary immune deficiencies
- allergies and asthma
- autoimmunity
- kidney transplantation
These conditions present significant global health challenges. Patients receiving a kidney transplant at the RMH have been chosen for their potential to benefit from innovative research approaches.
We are also recruiting healthy study participants.
This will allow us to compare and analyse samples from people with healthy individuals to those with immune disorders.
The aim of the research clinics
The focus for the Snow Centre research is to conduct studies on patients’ blood and/or tissue that look at:
- what immune cells are present
- how they function and interact
- and aspects of their genetic makeup
By studying these processes, we aim to gain a better understanding of immune function to develop more effective diagnostic tests and therapies, transforming the way we manage and treat immune disorders.
The research is conducted jointly by the RMH and WEHI.
What does participation involve?
Study participants in the clinic’s studies will be asked:
- to donate a sample of blood
- to provide information about their medical history
- for permission for us to re-contact them over time to track their immune health or conditions
About the Snow Centre
The Snow Centre for Immune Health is tackling the major global health challenge of immune health, which underlines many major human diseases.
The Snow Centre brings together leading Australian and international researchers with a shared mission to improve the lives of people with immune diseases, using a unique approach to immune health research.
The Snow Centre is funded by an initial commitment of up to $100 million over 10 years – one of the largest and longest-running philanthropic partnerships in Australian history.