Person
Sutherland, Struan Keith (1936 - 2002)
- Born
- 17 June 1936
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 11 January 2002
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Pharmacologist
Summary
Struan Sutherland was head of the Australian Venom Research Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne 1994-2001. Before that he had spent 28 years conducting venom research at CSL and advising on patient care. He and his colleagues developed the Sydney Funnel-web spider antivenom in 1980.
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Born Sydney, 17 June 1936. Died Melbourne, 11 January 2002. AO 2002. Educated University of Melbourne. Registered Medical Officer 1961, RAN Surgeon-Lieutenant 1962-65, Clinical Assistant, Royal Melbourne Hospital 1964-92, Head of Immunology Research, CSL Ltd 1967-84, Medical Consultant 1984-94, Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne 1994-2001, Director, Australian Venom Research Unit 1994-2001, External Medical Consultant to CSL Ltd 1994-, Physician, Department of Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital 1992-. AMA Prize for Medical Research 1977; James Cook Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales 1984; Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Tropical Medicine, Australasian College of Tropical Medicine 1997; Distinguished Fellow Medal, Royal College of Pathologists of Australia 1999.
Published resources
Articles
- Winkel, Ken, 'Vale Associate Professor Struan Keith Sutherland' (2002), http://www.unimelb.edu.au/ExtRels/Media/UN/archive/2002/702/StruanSutherland.html. Details
Books
- Sutherland, Struan K., A Venomous Life (Melbourne: Hyland House, 1998), 397 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, '150 Years, 150 Stories: Struan Keith Sutherland', Uni News, 12 (12) (2003), 4. Details
- Galbraith, Douglas, Sutherland, Struan and Nossal, G., 'William Reade Lane', Medical Journal of Australia, 1974 (2) (1974), 376-7. Details
- Mirtschin, Peter, 'Obituary: Struan Sutherland 1922 - 2000', Australasian arachnology, 62 (2002), 3-6. Details
- Mirtschin, Peter and Tibballs, James, 'Passing of Professor Struan Sutherland', Toxicon, 40 (7) (2002), 1975-6. Details
- Sutherland, Struan, 'Eric Worrell', Medical Journal of Australia, 148 (151) (1988), 15. Details
- Sutherland, Struan K., 'Antivenom Research in Australia', Medical Journal of Australia, 161 (1) (1994), 48-50. Details
- Tibballs, James, 'Struan Sutherland: Doyen of Envenomation in Australia', Toxicon, 48 (7) (2009), 860-871 . Details
Newspaper Articles
- Tibballs, James, 'Obituary: Struan Keith Sutherland', The Age (2002). Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7624951. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/8759315. Details
- 'Sutherland, Struan Keith (1936-2002)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-475512. Details
See also
- Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 150 years, 150 stories: brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne (Melbourne: Department of History, University of Melbourne, 2003), 168 pp. Details
- Winkel, Kenneth D.; Mirtschin, Peter and Pearn, John, 'Twentieth Century Toxinology and Antivenom development in Australia', Toxicon, 48 (7) (2006), 738-754 . Details
Rosanne Walker
Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 2 March 2018