Biographical entry Basten, Antony (Tony) (1939 - )

Summary

Tony Basten was appointed Founding Director of the Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology in 1989 and presently holds the Chair of Immunology at the University of Sydney, is a consultant physician at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Chief Scientist of CenTec Limited. He is still active in research and heads the B Cell Laboratory at the Centenary Institute.

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1963

Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS) completed at the University of Adelaide

1964

Career position - Junior Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Adelaide Hospital

1965

Career position - Junior Registrar at the Royal Adelaide Hospital

1966 - 1968

Career position - Nuffield Dominions Trust Clinical Assistant at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK

1969

Career position - Senior House Officer at the Nuffield Department of Medicine

1970 -

Career position - Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP)

1970 - 1971

Career position - Queen Elizabeth II Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Victoria

1971 -

Career position - Member of the Academic Staff at the University of Sydney

1971 - 1990

Career position - Head of the Department of Clinical Immunology at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney

1972 -

Award - Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists Australasia (FRCPA)

1975 -

Career position - Professor of Immunology at the University of Sydney

1975 -

Award - Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP)

1981 -

Award - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE)

1982 - 1990

Career position - Head of the Division of Medicine at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

1987 - ?

Career position - Chairman of the National AIDS Task Force

1988 - ?

Career position - Chief Commonwealth Medical and Scientific Advisor on AIDS and Executive member of the Australian National Council on AIDS

1988

Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)

1989 -

Career position - Director of the Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology in Sydney

1992 -

Award - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

1994 -

Career position - Head of the Department of Clinical Immunology at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

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• National Library of Australia, 'Basten, A', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-601392. Details