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AUSTRALIA (elected in 2008 – mandate expires in 2012)
Ian Hector FRAZER, M.D.
AUSTRALIA
ADDRESS (as from 11 July 2011):
CEO and Research Director
Translational Research Institute
20 Cornwall Street
Woolloongabba QLD 4102, Australia
Tel.: +61 7 3346 1905
EDUCATION
YEAR INSTITUTION QUALIFICATION
1988
1977
1974
Melbourne
Edinburgh
Edinburgh
M.D.
M.B. Ch.B.
B.Sc. (Hons)
Pathology
PRINCIPAL POSITIONS HELD
YEAR POSITION AND PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT
1980
1981-1985
1985-1988
1985-1999
1989-1993
1994-
1991-
2011
Registrar, Medical Renal Unit, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh
Senior Research Officer, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne
Assistant, Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne
Assistant Physician, Clinical Research Unit, Walter & Eliza Hall
Institute, Melbourne
Senior Lecturer, Department of Medicine, University of
Queensland
Director, Division of Clinical Immunology, Princess Alexandra
Hospital, Queensland
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of
Queensland
Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Queensland
Director, Centre for Immunology and Cancer Research, University
of Queensland
CEO and Research Director, Translational Research Institute,
Brisbane
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Since 1983, Dr Frazer has pursued an interest in the development of vaccines to
prevent human papillomavirus (HPV) infection.
His current research interests include immunoregulation and immunotherapeutic
vaccines for papillomavirus associated cancers.