MHTP Research Symposium, 7-9 November 2018

Prof Ian Frazer AC

Why should you attend the MHTP Research Symposium?

• Discover some of the ground-breaking research being conducted at our precinct.
• Network with colleagues from other disciplines – you may meet a potential collaborator!
• Learn about the translational impact of our research.

Highlights

• Invited keynote speaker Professor Ian Frazer AC.  Professor Frazer is a clinician scientist, trained as a clinical immunologist in Scotland. As a professor at the University of Queensland, he leads a research group working at TRI in Brisbane on the immunobiology of epithelial cancers.  He is recognised as co-inventor of the technology enabling the HPV vaccines, currently used worldwide to help prevent cervical cancer. He heads a biotechnology company, Admedus Vaccines, working on new vaccine technologies, and is a board member of several companies and not for profit organisations. He is current president of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, and a member of the Commonwealth Science Council. Most recently appointed Chair of the Federal Government’s Medical Research Future Fund. He was recognised as Australian of the Year in 2006. He was recipient of the Prime Ministers Prize for Science, and of the Balzan Prize, in 2008, and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 2012.
• Poster competitions with generous prizes
• Early Career Researchers’ ‘Best of Emerging Researchers’ presentations and networking event
• Translational Research symposium 
• SCS PhD student showcase symposium

More information, program and registration HERE.