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=== Origin and Penfold directorship === CSL was founded in 1916 as Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, an Australian government body focused on vaccine manufacture.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Trove|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/people/1476740?c=people|access-date=2020-09-22|website=trove.nla.gov.au}}</ref> Under the first director, William Penfold,<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/penfold-william-james-8015|title=Penfold, William James (1875β1941)|last=Robin|first=A. De Q.|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|location=Canberra}}</ref> CSL commenced operation in the vacant [[Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research|Walter and Eliza Hall Institute]] building at the [[Royal Melbourne Hospital]] in 1918 before moving to its purpose-built Parkville premises in the following year.
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