Microbiology and Virology expert #ID12317

Expert Skills #ID12317

ID12317 has published more than 60 original research papers and invited chapters. He has presented his original research work at numerous national and international scientific meetings.

He has been active in the translation of research into practical outcomes through commercial ventures and academic collaborations and is an inventor on 10 patent families.

Research interests

ID12317 has longstanding interest in the application of research to practical and commercial processes. This is reflected in contract and collaborative research agreements with the pharmaceutical and biotech industries since 1991.

In 2003 a portfolio of technologies from his laboratory relating to the control of infectious diseases (diagnostics, vaccines and antivirals) was licensed to a start-up biotech company. Three commercial diagnostic products are now sold worldwide based on this technology. A fourth (for the diagnosis of active syphilis) entered extensive laboratory trials in 2011. The vaccine technology has been sublicensed to a German biotechnology company.

• Fields of Expertise

  • Animals - Virology
  • Medical - Biotechnology
  • Medical - Immunology
  • Medical - Microbiology
  • Medical - Virology

• Location

  Melbourne VIC

Education and Experience Highlights

• BSc (Hons)
  
• PhD