Professor Ian Frazer, Director of the Diamantina Institute for Cancer, Immunology and Metabolic Medicine

Professor Ian Frazer

MB, ChB (Edinburgh), MD (Melbourne)

Phone: + 61 (7) 3240 5954
Fax: + 61 (7) 3240 5310
Email: di.director@uq.edu.au
Website: www.di.uq.edu.au
Office: Diamantina Institute for Cancer, Immunology and Metabolic Medicine
Post: 4th Floor R-Wing,
Building 1, Princess Alexandra Hospital
Ipswich Road
Woolloongabba
QLD 4102

Personal Assistant:
Linda Barter
Tel: +61 (7) 3240 5954
Email: l.barter@uq.edu.au

Areas of Responsibility:
Ian Frazer is the Director of the Diamantina Institute for Cancer, Immunology and Metabolic Medicine, a research institute of the University of Queensland at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane. This institute is made up of over 200 researchers, clinical researchers, students and support staff. Professor Frazer’s current research interests include immunoregulation and immunotherapeutic vaccines, for which he holds research funding from several Australian and US funding bodies. Professor Frazer teaches immunology to undergraduate and graduate students of the University.

Biography:
Professor Frazer was trained as a renal physician and clinical immunologist in Edinburgh, Scotland before emigrating in 1981 to Melbourne, Australia to continue his clinical training and to pursue studies in viral immunology and autoimmunity at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research with Prof Ian Mackay. In 1985 he moved to Brisbane to take up a teaching post with the University of Queensland, and he now holds a personal chair as head of the Diamantina Institute.

Professor Frazer is president of the Cancer Council Australia, the Chairman of the Australian Cancer Research Foundation's Medical Research Advisory Committee and has sat on various committees of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia continuously over the last 15 years. He advises the WHO and the Bill and Melissa Gates Foundation on papillomavirus vaccines.

He was chosen as the 2006 Queenslander of the Year and the 2006 Australian of the Year in recognition of his role in developing the world’s first cervical cancer vaccine. He was awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science in October 2008.

Other Awards: CSIRO Eureka Award for Leadership in Science 2005; William Coley Medal, Cancer Research Institute New York 2006; International Life Award (Sezione Ricerca Scientifica), Rome – January 2007; Florey Medal, Sydney – March 2007; Clunies Ross Award, Melbourne – April 2007; Balzan Prize for Preventive Medicine - November 2008.


 

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