2005年正式由维多利亚州成立，是墨尔本大学专门从事医疗、农业和环境生物技术的多学科研究中心，澳大利亚最大的生物技术研究中心之一。寻求用过生物技术和相关领域创新，多学科交叉推动，将生物发现转化为生物技术成果，与工业合作研究并动态互动，改善人类健康和环境。

Officially established by the State of Victoria in 2005, it is a multidisciplinary research centre at the University of Melbourne specializing in medical, agricultural and environmental biotechnology, and one of the largest biotechnology research centres in Australia. Seeking to use biotechnology and related fields of innovation, multidisciplinary cross-promotion, transforming biological discoveries into biotechnology results, collaborating with industry in research and dynamically interacting to improve human health and the environment.