Professor Michael E. McManus, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic)

Mick McManus

BPharm Curtin, PhD UWA, MPS, GAICD
 

Biography
Professor McManus was appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) in December 2011. Prior to this role, he held the position of Dean of Academic Programs from April 2010, where he strengthened and developed UQ’s academic programs in a range of areas (e.g., extracurriculum) and provided leadership in internationalising the University’s curricula, embedding Indigenous perspectives into the curricula and strengthening pathways from secondary school to university. Prior to this position, Professor McManus was Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International) from January 2009 to April 2010. He has also held positions at UQ as Executive Dean, Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences, 1998-2008; and Head, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, 1993-1997. In 2006 he led the review of the Bachelor of Science degree at UQ and provided major input into a new science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) plan for schools in the State of Queensland. During his time as Executive Dean, Professor McManus was also a member of the Boards of three research institutes, two Cooperative Research Centres, a number of spin-out companies (VasCam Pty Ltd, Bireme Pty Ltd (Chair), ICT-IX Pty Ltd, IPCo Ltd) and was Chair of the Queensland Australian-American Fulbright Awards Committee from 2006 – 2008.

He received a Bachelor of Pharmacy from Curtin University of Technology and completed his PhD in biochemical pharmacology at the University of Western Australia. He has held research positions at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London, National Institutes of Health in the U.S.A, and at Flinders University in Adelaide. Professor McManus has been the recipient of a Fogarty International Fellowship/Associateship, an Anti-Cancer Foundation Fellowship of the Universities of South Australia, National Health and Medical Research Council Principal Research Fellowship, and an International Union Against Cancer Yamagiwa-Yoshida Fellowship. He was President of the Australasian Society of Clinical & Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists (ASCEPT) from 2000-2001 and Chairperson of the 9th International Congress of Toxicology held in Brisbane in 2001. In 2007, Professor McManus was the recipient of ASCEPT’s Inaugural Service to the Society Award.

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