About the Graeme Clark Institute

The Graeme Clark Institute (GCI) for Biomedical Engineering was created in 2017 to coordinate biomedical engineering activities across the University of Melbourne. We are dedicated to transforming healthcare with biomedical engineering solutions that deliver global health, societal and economic benefits.

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Vision and Mission of the Graeme Clark Institute

Professor David Nisbet, Director at the Graeme Clark Institute. Image courtesy of Jamie Kidston, ANU

Message from the Director

Being positioned at the University of Melbourne and the Parkville Biomedical precinct offers a huge depth of biological science and engineering expertise within the Graeme Clark membership, making it possible for us to deliver new high impact technologies that solve long-standing health issues that are underserved by existing technologies

- Professor David Nisbet

Professor David Nisbet's profile

Professor Graeme Clark AC Lasker Laureate

The Graeme Clark Institute for Biomedical Engineering is proud to be named in honour of Professor Graeme Clark AC Lasker Laureate.

Professor Clark pioneered one of the world’s greatest biomedical engineering achievements, the multi-channel cochlear implant or bionic ear – the first device to allow severely-to-profoundly deaf people understand speech and the first restoration of a human sense.

His groundbreaking achievements encapsulate the vision of the Graeme Clark Institute for Biomedical Engineering – to transform healthcare through biomedical engineering solutions that deliver global health, societal and economic benefits.

Professor Graeme Clark AC Lasker Laureate's Biography

Graeme Clark 1985
Graeme Clark in his office in 1985 with the Cochlear Limited CI22 implant he, Brian Pyman and Robert Webb implanted in Graham Carrick in 1982 at the RVEEH. It was the first Cochlear multi-channel device to be implanted in any patient.