Working together to combat malaria.
"...information at the molecular level is vital to gain insights
into the pathogenesis of malaria, and potentially offers
the opportunity to develop better drugs."
~ Subra Suresh
International Scientific Advisory Committee (ISAC) member profileProf Kiaran Kirk
Professor Kiaran Kirk is Director of the Research School of Biology at the
Australian National University in Canberra. He carried out his PhD in the
Department of Biochemistry at the University of Sydney (1985-1988). In 1989 he
went to the Oxford University Laboratory of Physiology where he held an Oxford
Nuffield Medical Fellowship, the Staines Medical Research Fellowship (Exeter
College) and a Lister Institute Senior Research Fellowship. He returned to
Australia in 1996 to head the Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in
the ANU’s Faculty of Science, holding this post until taking up his present
position as Director of the ANU Research School of Biology in June 2009. In 2002
Kiaran was awarded the Roche Medal of the Australian Society for Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology and in 2003 was an Overseas Research Fellow at Churchill
College, University of Cambridge. In 2008 he was awarded the Australian Society
for Parasitology’s Bancroft-Mackerras Medal. |