Scientific Advisory Committee
Dr
Graham Mitchell AO
A Veterinary graduate and University Gold Medallist of the University of
Sydney, Graham made discoveries in cellular immunology at the Walter and
Eliza Hall Institute and obtained a PhD in 1969.
He gained research experience in the USA, UK and Switzerland and returned
to Australia to establish a new programme in immunoparasitology at the
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and was instrumental in establishing a
long-term programme with the disease schistomiasis in the Philippines.
Graham has been a director of the Royal Melbourne Zoological Gardens and a Director
in Research in R&D at CSL Limited. He has worked with the World Health
Organisation, written more than 350 publications and was awarded Officer
of the Order of Australia for services to medical science. Graham is a
principal adviser in Science, Engineering and Technology to the Victorian
Government and a non-executive director of several listed life-science
companies.
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