Director, Diamantina Institute for Cancer, Immunology and Metabolic Medicine
University of Queensland
Professor Ian Frazer
Ian Frazer is Director of the Diamantina Institute for Cancer, Immunology and Metabolic Medicine, a research institute of the University of Queensland at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane.
He was trained as a renal physician and clinical immunologist in Edinburgh, Scotland before emigrating in 1981 to Melbourne, Australia to continue his clinical training and to pursue studies in viral immunology and autoimmunity at the Walter and Eliza Hall institute of Medical Research with Prof Ian Mackay.
In 1985 he moved to Brisbane to take up a teaching post with the University of Queensland, and he now holds a personal chair as head of the Centre. His current research interests include immunoregulation, and immunotherapeutic vaccines for Papillomavirus associated cancers, for which he holds research funding from several Australian and US funding bodies. Dr Frazer teaches immunology to undergraduate and graduate students of the University. He chairs the Medical and Scientific advisory committee, and is on the board of the Queensland Cancer Fund. He is vice president of the Cancer Council Australia.
He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and was awarded a Eureka Prize in 2005 in recognition of his development of the CSL/Merck HPV vaccine and was also awarded Australian of the Year in January 2006.
Last reviewed 10 June 2008