Biographical entry Kemp, David James (1945 - )

Summary

David James (Dave) Kemp is Head of the Malaria and Scabies Laboratory at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research. He is a world renowned expert in the field of malaria research and in molecular biology in general. In 1983 while working at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (Melbourne), he and co-worker Robin Anders were the first to successfully clone plasmodium genes into E. coli bacteria, thus enabling the parasite proteins to be produced in large quantities for research. This was the very first beginnings of a malaria vaccine breakthrough and the start of defining the various malaria antigens and their antigenic diversity. Kemp is also heralded as a co-instigator of the malaria genome project - the first multicentre international basic science collaboration in the field - which was officially launched in 1996.

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1969

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Adelaide

1973

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of Adelaide

1973 - 1975

Career position - Research Fellow in Biochemistry at the University of Adelaide (eighteen months)

1975 - 1976

Career position - Research Scientist at CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Division of Plant Industry in Canberra

1976 - 1977

Career position - Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow in Biochemistry at Stanford University Medical Center in California, USA

1977 - 1978

Career position - Senior Fellow of the American Cancer Society at the Stanford University Medical Centre in California, USA

1978 - 1985

Career position - Research Fellow then Senior Research Fellow at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Parkville, Victoria

1981

Award - Boehringer Medal received from the Australian Biochemical Society

1984 - 1992

Career position - Head of the MacArthur Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

1986 - 1992

Career position - Principal Research Fellow then Senior Principal Research Fellow at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

1990 -

Career position - Member of the Board of Advisors on the Malaria Genome Project at the University of Florida

1990 - 1992

Career position - Member of the Australian Research Council Gene Regulation Panel

1992 - 1993

Career position - Deputy Director of the Menzies School of Health Research and Head of the Molecular Parasitology Unit

1993 -

Career position - Howard Hughes Fellow

1996 -

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

2003

Award - Centenary Medal received from the Australian Government

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• National Library of Australia, 'Kemp, David James', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475787. Details