A visionary philanthropist established the Baker Medical Research Institute in 1926.

In the late 1940s, Baker Institute scientists provided evidence of the two types of diabetes.

The Baker Institute was instrumental in enabling The Alfred Hospital to perform its first open heart operation in 1957.

Our pioneering research in the 1970s was critical in the global prediction of the current diabetes epidemic.

In the 1980s, the Baker Institute demonstrated that regular exercise lowers blood pressure and cardiovascular risk.

Our studies in blood vessel biology in the 1990s have resulted in the development of new safer treatments for pulmonary hypertension.

Our research in the 2000s discovered the molecular process for the phenomenon of ‘metabolic memory’.

The Baker Institute has developed a body of evidence on the health impacts of sedentary behaviour.