CVR is multidisciplinary centre with laboratories located at UNSW, South Eastern Area Laboratory Services and Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, the Department of Medicine at St George Hospital, Sydney, the Division of Immunology and Cell Biology, the John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Monash University. The interaction between groups is reinforced by NHMRC Program Grants.

Profiles of each group are available by following the links to each of the group leaders listed on the research groups page.

Colin Chesterman is Director of Haematology in the Prince of Wales Hospital and South Eastern Area Laboratory Services in Sydney. He is Professor in the School of Medical Science and the Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW. He holds a Visiting Fellowship in the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University in Canberra.

His research interests have focused on occlusive vascular disease including fibrinolysis, the characterisation & function of platelet granules, particularly PDGF; more recently aspects of the antiphospholid syndrome and vWF multimerisation.

He is a past president of the Australian Vascular Biology Society, a member of the Senior Advisory Council of the Scientific and Standardisation Committee of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) and is President of the XXth Congress of the ISTH in Sydney in 2005.