Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Nobel Prize recipient, Immunologist and long-term Parkville resident Professor Peter Doherty recently visited the site of the new Parkville Station.

Peter shares his thoughts on the benefits it will provide to Victoria’s world-renowned education, health and research precinct, providing underground metro ‘turn up and go’ access to the University of Melbourne, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, the Royal Women’s Hospital and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre for the first time.


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