Congratulations to Steve Turner who has been promoted to Professorial Fellow with the title of Professor.
This is a most fitting reward for Steve’s outstanding contribution to research and teaching in the Department,
and augurs well for our continuing leadership in immunology teaching and research in Australia and worldwide.
Each year up to six Victoria Fellowships are awarded to emerging leaders in science, technology and engineering.
One of the winners for 2011 is Jaclyn Pearson from the Hartland laboratory. Each Fellow receives a travel grant of
up to $18,000 to undertake a short-term overseas study mission to assist in developing a commercial idea, undertaking
specialist training or career development. Jaclyn will use this award to conduct research at the Insitut Pasteur in Paris.
Our congratulations to Jaclyn on this excellent achievement.
Congratulatiions to Katherine Kedzierska, who last week received a special Achievement Award from the NHMRC
in connection with her application for a Career Development Fellowship. Katherine’s application was the
top-ranked Fellowship application in her category (biomedical level 2) this round.
Our congratulations to Tim Stinear who has been promoted to Principal Research Fellow with the title of Associate Professor.
This is a well deserved honour for Tim who has enjoyed considerable recent success with publications and research funding.
Special Seminar - Tuesday 17 January 12 noon
(Thomas Cherry Lecture Theatre)
Dr Kylie Quinn
Vaccine Research Center National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA "Comparative Analysis of Pox- and Adenoviral Vectors for CD8 T cell immunity" Host: Professor Stephen Kent
