Principal speaker
Professor Ian Frazer AC FRS
Menzies Health Institute Queensland Lecture
Title
Bedside to bench and back again: facilitating translational research in Australia
Abstract
While Australia is widely recognised for output in the basic biomedical sciences, the country's contribution to the global translation of biomedical research output into practical outcomes for patients and for public health has been less spectacular. Our human research regulatory system favours early stage translation, but this process has hindered our choice of funding models for research projects and research leaders, the scale of our translation focussed industry base, and the loss of research focussed clinicians that has occurred since introduction of a service priced and funded health system. Solutions must cross the state/federal health system divide, and harness rather than emphasise inter-institute and inter-state competitiveness. Success will require collaboration between the AHRTCs, a new source of funding from the Medical Research Future Fund and the Biomedical Research Funds, and a biomedical research funding system that rewards translation and trains the next generation of researchers to think about translation.
Biography
Professor Ian 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, Australia 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 governments 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.
He was appointed Companion of the Order of Australia in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in 2013.
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