Ian Frazer
Affiliate Professor at The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute Faculty of Medicine.
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, Jingang Medicine (Aus) Pty Ltd, working on new vaccine technologies, and is a board member of several companies and not for profit organisations. He was the inaugural president of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, and a member of the Australian National Science and Technology Council. He chairs the Australian Medical Research Advisory Board of the Medical Research Future Fund.
Visit website: https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/228
See also: University of Queensland - Public Research university.
Details last updated 13-Mar-2020
Ian Frazer News
Australia could eradicate cervical cancer
Guardian - 03-Mar-2018
In 2007, Australia began providing free HPV vaccine to girls aged 12-13 years. HPV rate among 18...
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